Health care reform was once supposed to lower the cost burden, but the opposite is likely to be the case. Not only the private health insurers, with whom about 10 percent of the population is insured, but also other parties involved never tire of invoking a multitude of legal opinions by renowned professors as a […]
Almost completely unnoticed by the entire public, a fundamental reform of the inheritance and gift tax is imminent in 2007. This is like a time bomb for the entire middle class, because the details are only now becoming known step by step. Experts and tax experts, for example from the Association of German Chambers […]
By Dr. Johannes Fiala and Frank M. Strobelt The medium-sized entrepreneur is currently facing a multitude of problems for which he urgently needs efficient solutions. According to calculations by the Institute for Research on Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, more than 300,000 family businesses are facing a change of ownership in the next few years. It […]
New tax regulations such as inheritance and gift tax affect the entire middle class. Intelligent solutions are needed. One is the charitable trust, which is supported with substantial tax benefits. Johannes Fiala and Frank M. Strobelt Almost completely unnoticed by the public, a fundamental reform of the inheritance and gift tax is imminent in 2007. […]
Event tip: ChannelSeminar tax reform 2007 The tax value is to rise strongly for medium-size enterprises with the inheritance tax and enterprise follow-up. Accordingly, business assets are to be divided into “good” and “bad” assets for tax purposes in the future. The so-called evil assets = unproductive assets (cash assets, cash in hand, bank balances, […]
Gifts inter vivos are also taxed like inheritances – both are regulated in the same law, the Inheritance Tax Act: When assets are transferred, the inheritance tax allowances of 307,000 euros for the spouse, 205,000 euros for children and children of deceased children and 51,200 euros for other grandchildren – every 10 years – are […]
There is known knowledge. These are things that we know we know. There is known ignorance. That is, there are things we know we don’t know. But there is also unknown unknowing. These are things we don’t know we don’t know.? (Donald Rumsfeld) Risks of providing advice on cover for loss of capacity to work: […]
by Johannes Fiala, Lawyer (Munich), Mediator (Univ.), MBA Financial Services (Univ.Wales), MM (Univ.), Certified Financial and Investment Advisor (A.F.A.), EC Expert (C.I.F.E.), Lecturer (Univ. of Cooperative Education), Banker (www.fiala.de) Effective solutions for medium-sized entrepreneurs – especially in the event of liquidity bottlenecks and in the law of succession Almost completely unnoticed by the entire public, […]
*by Johannes Fiala, lawyer (Munich), MBA Financial Services (Univ.Wales), MM (Univ.), certified financial and investment advisor (A.F.A.), EC expert (C.I.F.E.), lecturer (Univ. of Cooperative Education), banker (www.fiala.de) and graduate mathematician Peter A. Schramm, actuary DAV (Diethardt), actuarial expert (www.pkv-gutachter.de). “The less people know how sausages and laws are made, the better they sleep.? (Otto Eduard […]
by Johannes Fiala, lawyer; Kristina Starck, lawyer; Klaus Werht, Dr rer pol Privatdozent at the Department of Economics at the University of Hamburg I. Typical situation The investor is regularly approached by a contact person with the aim of clarifying whether there is a general interest in saving taxes or in acquiring a property with […]
