– Employer liability for defined benefit plans, defined contribution plans, defined contribution plans with minimum benefit – Using sample calculations for illustration, employers and employees are usually promised exaggerated pensions and increases in the value of occupational pensions (bAV). The external providers of occupational pensions (insurers, Pensionskassen, pension funds) are the most closely monitored […]
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Liability risks for employers when changing jobs and taking over company pension schemes (bAV)
– Pension capital transfer or change of policyholder – decision between plague and cholera – In purely statistical terms, the length of service of an employee is just under five years. If the employee has a pension plan, he or she will be able to take it with him or her to the new […]
Company pension scheme (bAV): Mostly no simplified accounting for micro companies (GmbH, AG, GmbH & Co. KG)
– Why setting up a bAV blocks the way to balance sheet simplification -. Following the Bundestag, on 14 December 2012 the Bundesrat also approved the draft bill on the Small Capital Companies Accounting Law Amendment Act (Kleinstkapitalgesellschaften-Bilanzrechtsänderungsgesetz). (MicroBilG) was approved. The promised EReduction in the costs of accounting for micro-corporations (GmbH, AG, GmbH […]
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 […]
Corona aids: With state aid in insolvency and poverty in old age
– How self-employed persons and GmbH managing directors also lose their pension provision ? – In the so-called Corona crisis, the state helps, for example by providing tax relief – such as reducing advance payments and deferral of payments upon application. This applies to income tax, corporate income tax and value added tax, but not […]
No obligation to provide information on taxes and social security contributions on occupational pensions
The Federal Labour Court (BAG, ruling of 18.02.2020, Ref. 3 AZR 206/18) decided that an employer did not owe compensation for damages simply because he had not correctly informed about social insurance contribution obligations at an information event, and simply because he did not even address the topic of social insurance. Then he did […]
Company pension scheme: Company loses all its pension assets to insolvency administrator
– OLG Naumburg: Consultants are liable for losses and incorrect advice – Insolvency administrator draws company and private pension provision completely an investment broker and insurance brokers are happy to advertise company and private pension provision for entrepreneurs as “seizure-proof and insolvency-proof”. However, this is not the case, as a recent ruling by the […]
Total loss for pension scheme of the managing partner in GmbH insolvency
– New BGH ruling: How the insolvency administrator achieves confiscation and immediate realisation The most common form of company pension scheme (bAV) for the managing partners is the pension commitment. A new ruling by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH ruling of 18 July 2013, file no. IX ZR 219/11) opens up further possibilities […]
How retirement income and pension increases can be designed at an early stage
In the last up to more than 35 years, people’s parties have more than halved the statutory net pension level. The cost of an equally high funded pension in safe government bonds has approximately tripled as a result of political decisions. subscribers of Basic income support – most of which is not applied for by […]
BGB-Leibrenten as the better alternative to private pension insurance
In some city archives historians find records of an annuity purchase – like these. What is behind it and what does it mean for us? Since then In the 13th century, the purchase of annuities was the predominant credit business of the Middle Ages. The future pensioner bought the right to receive a life […]