bAV: How to optimize taxes and social security contributions

Company pension scheme: Tax burdens and social security contributions play an important role in the settlement of occupational pension entitlements. In the guest article, Dr. Fiala and Peter Schramm show optimisation possibilities. Severance pay for company pension schemes (bAV) as a tax-saving model The State Social Court of Baden-Württemberg (ruling of 24 March 2015, file […]

Security of benefits in private health insurance

The benefits in private health insurance are fixed by contract, but they are not irrevocably fixed, the benefits can also be reduced. Anyone who claims otherwise as an intermediary is liable. An the face of ever new legally imposed benefit restrictions in statutory health insurance, one advantage of private health insurance is praised: The benefits […]

Company pension scheme (bAV) through deferred compensation: 10 billion social security as liability potential for employers

Company pension scheme (bAV) through deferred compensation: 10 billion social security as liability potential for employers *by Dr. Johannes Fiala, Attorney at Law (Munich), MBA Financial Services (Univ.), MM (Univ.), Certified Financial and Investment Advisor (A.F.A.), Lecturer for Civil and Insurance Law (BA Heidenheim, Univ. of Cooperative Education), (www.fiala.de) and Dipl.-.Math. Peter A. Schramm, expert […]

Lawyer for banking law in Munich

Banking law: errors in advice, credit traps and more As a lawyer for banking law, I know that a bank has been part of our daily life since our earliest childhood. Just remember your first savings book, which you probably got at primary school from the nice savings bank advisor next door. We withdraw money, […]

Extraordinary termination without notice of contractually non-cancellable insurance and other contracts

– How to immediately terminate long-term occupational and personal pension contracts -.   It is not only in private banks that it is common for employees to have to earn up to more than three times their gross salary. For bank customers, this means that up to more than 1% of their assets can go […]

Working time credits predominantly unprotected

– Why employer time value accounts regularly do not offer insolvency protection –   The “Flexi II Act” came into force on 01.09.2009. This was intended to provide employees with better protection against loss in the event of the employer’s insolvency. Today, this proves to be incorrect in at least 98% of the companies.   […]

Life insurance companies and foundations from Liechtenstein, Bermuda, Switzerland and Papua New Guinea

– When structures for asset protection and succession planning are ineffective – Banks and insurance companies, as well as financial advisors from Germany and abroad, are praising foreign camouflage constructions via prospectuses and appraisals. This should make it practically possible for assets of 100,000 euros or more to constitute a secure succession arrangement by circumventing […]

Corona aid: With the support of the state in insolvency and old-age poverty

The wave of insolvencies is coming. What is to be considered thereby and how self-employed persons and GmbH managing directors could lose also the old age pension, explain the examined financial and investment advisor and banker Dr. Johannes Fiala and the expert for insurance mathematics Peter A. Schramm.   In the so-called Corona crisis, the […]

Books / Technical articles

Publications – Technical papers Fiala/Schramm, Insolvency risk of British life insurers when relocating to Ireland, ExpertenReport, issue 7/2019, pages 60-62 Fiala/Schramm, When are insurers no longer obliged to pay benefits or can reduce benefits?Expert Report, issue 3/2019, pages 56-58 Fiala/Schramm, No insurance coverage in case of refusal to pay protection money, ExpertenReport, issue 11/2018. Pages […]