Check policies on separation The fact that a divorce costs a lot of money is not only due to the court and lawyer fees. What few couples suspect: Insurers are also cashing in. According to the Federation of Insured Persons (BdV), judges have now even allowed companies to collect up to 500 euros if, for […]
Law firm Fiala in the book: Merten, Hans-Lothar, Steueroasen Edition 2007. Handbook for flexible taxpayers, Regensburg 2006.
Your lawyer for tax law: How we support our clients in the tax jungle German tax law is one of the most complex tax systems in the world, even if the often quoted story of the most comprehensive tax literature in the world is probably a bourgeois Moravia. As Attorney for tax law we offer […]
– What alternatives are there to the tax havens Andorra, Liechtenstein, Vatican, Switzerland, San Marino, and Monaco – To date, Germans have invested up to more than € 360 billion in tax havens, as Professor Gabriel Zucman recently determined. The widely praised way of buying tax CDs with allegedly mass self-disclosures is only the […]
– Which loopholes the legislator still allows the investor tax-free – For decades it has been customary for many investors to store their securities in effective certificates in a safe deposit box. For the older generation, the reason is a war experience, so that, if necessary, one can pick up bonds and shares at any […]
Total losses fall under non-taxable assets and are not deductible. Snowball systems have been the order of the day in Germany for decades. Typically, high-yielding, even supposedly bank-guaranteed, investments are offered. Or the investor is sold shares, gold, diamonds or commodities that do not exist. The providers of such investment models often falsify asset certificates […]
1. the fairy tale of the wild-eyed lone perpetrator Bankers and representatives of foreign life insurers must be willing to travel and be creative. Even dubious arrangements should at least leave the customer with the feeling that “the tax authorities will certainly not find out”. Revelations followed through offshore leaks, interested journalists, bought up CD-ROM’s, […]
Tax evasion strategies put to the test Practical assistance in the evasion of income, especially from capital assets, has) apparently been part of the more or less tolerated business model of certain private banks, insurance companies, state banks or subsidiaries for decades. Abroad, such “institutions” are also called savings banks, institutions, trusts, cantonal banks, trustees […]
Do foreign financial advisors systematically induce tax evasion? Assets abroad – tax liability in Germany If you move your money abroad, for example to an Austrian private foundation or a Liechtenstein family foundation, you can by no means be sure that the world income principle will not force you to declare it in Austria. […]
Investing money abroad could tempt people to break the law MUNICH – Whoever moves his money abroad, for example into an Austrian private foundation or a Liechtenstein family foundation, can by no means be sure that the world income principle does not force him to declare it in Germany. Foreign investment opportunities could downright […]