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 […]
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How relatives are exempted from having to reclaim social assistance for care costs
– Have supplementary nursing care insurance policies served their time as asset protection policies? – Compulsory long-term care insurance (PPV) as partial coverage “Help yourself, that’s how God helps you” thought the legislator when he created the JPA – even with “Pflege-Bahr” only a partial cover of up to less than 50% of the nursing […]
Tax savings through charity or religion – or tax evasion-Deluxe
– 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 […]
Small or large matrimonial property regime swing for asset protection – absolutely legal design – or tax evasion deluxe?
Small or large matrimonial property regime for asset protection *- concerning the ex-manager of a DAX company, a public prosecutor suspects tax evasion as a result of the use of a matrimonial property regime. The legal counsel of the person concerned will consider filing a criminal complaint for alleged violation of official and service secrets. […]
Why are insurance agents and insurance brokers liable for underperformance?
The Social Court of Dresden (judgement of 09.03.2017, file no. S 39 VE 25/14) decided that if private provision by (accident) pension insurance coincides with pension entitlement under the Victims’ Compensation Act (due to a criminal offence suffered), partial crediting takes place. The victim’s pension of € 708 was reduced by about € 580 (part […]
Statutorily insured without occupational abandonment
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 […]
Compulsory insurance in KV and RV for self-employed persons
– How the self-employed can take out statutory insurance even if they do not have a job – 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 […]
The fairy tale of the unprofitable German pension insurance scheme
– When a funded pension would be comparable – The Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (DRV) lets its insured know that voluntary contributions in particular lead to an annual pension of 5.18%. In many cases, it is nonsensical to compare returns, as this would require consideration of the increasing payouts, including increasing life expectancy. The answer […]
How the self-employed can take out statutory insurance
In the case of the Federal Social Court, the owner of a clothing chain was to be treated only as a “part-time self-employed person” after he had received a widower’s and standard old-age pension, so that in future he would not have to pay the higher voluntary contributions but only compulsory contributions to the statutory […]
Benefits to spouses and in the case of non-marital cohabitation are often recoverable
If donations are for the purpose of community protection, but are not gifts…. The Federal Court of Justice (BGH, ruling of 6 May 2014, file no. X ZR 135/11) decided that donations to non-marital partners with the purpose of securing the death of the donor are not gifts. If the cohabitation fails, such donations must […]