Falsification and concealment of balance sheets are punishable under § 331 No. of the German Commercial Code (HGB). Famous examples of such manipulations would be the Olympus and Enron companies, or more recently P&R. The “Heubeck mortality tables RT 2018 G” (dated 20.07.2018) were allegedly erroneously prepared and later withdrawn – this was the responsibility […]
When are services tax-free and often overlooked by consultants ? Anyone who is reduced in earning capacity as a result of a third-party-induced damage to health receives compensation for this, which is taxable as it replaces earned income. However, for the reduced ability to carry out unpaid household work, he receives a tax-exempt loss of […]
Wage tax and social security are at least as complicated as the taxation of the Mittelstands-GmbH. This is usually in the hands of tax clerks, who bear responsibility but are not allowed to advise alone. Up to more than 50 possibilities for tax-free or only flat-rate taxable benefits from the employer to his employees therefore […]
The private health insurance has a legal obligation to provide advice if there is a recognisable reason – and even more so if there is an explicit request – § 6 VVG. This also includes “human care until the end of life”, for example through palliative and, if necessary, hospice treatment, as well as through […]
– How will the severance pay for company pension schemes (bAV) be subsidised from 01.07.2016? – As of July 1, 2016, the severance payment of pension commitments on occupational pension schemes will be classified as pension benefits by the umbrella organisations of the social security system, Section 229 SGB V. This means that neither unemployment […]
The Federal Social Court (BSG, ruling of 10.10.2017, Ref. B 12 KR 2/16) decided that no health insurance contributions are owed on benefits from a voluntary supplementary occupational disability insurance and/or private pension insurance. In the case decided, the plaintiff has been drawing a BU pension since 2008. All of a sudden, sometime in 2011, […]
The Federal Social Court (BSG, ruling of 10.10.2017, Ref. B 12 KR 2/16) decided that no health insurance contributions are owed on benefits from a voluntary supplementary occupational disability insurance and/or private pension insurance. Pension fund of the press had been wrong or mistaken? In the case decided, the plaintiff has been drawing a […]
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On the liability of insurance companies, agents and insurance brokers for incorrect design on the part of the legislator Insurance brokers have always had a particularly heavy responsibility towards their customers. In the German Insurance Contract Act (VVG), the legislator has expressly defined the liability of the insurance intermediary in §§ 59 ff. VVG. […]
The most important information on compulsory health insurance and pension insurance for the self-employed The Federal Social Court (BSG, ruling of 29.07.2015, Ref. B 12 KR 4/13 R) ruled that the mere performance of duties as a body of a corporation (AG, GmbH) without further active involvement in the GmbH beyond that does not constitute […]
