branch office
April 11, 2014 | 30,00 EUR | answered by Ralph J. Schnaars
Dear Mr. Schnaars,
Continuation of my last question regarding address/invoice:
As mentioned, I have so far provided my residential address for business registration and used it as the business location, while using another representative address for external purposes (invoices, business cards, etc). I have recently moved, so now I need to deregister my business at the old address and register it at the new address.
In the new municipality, I want to continue with the same setup, but I want to do it correctly from the beginning to avoid any issues later on.
You suggested registering a branch/branch office to be able to use the second address for invoices.
I have the following questions:
1) How should I best communicate my plan to the business/financial office during registration?
2) Is it enough to only provide the address of the branch office on the invoices? I read somewhere that the address of the main office (residential address) also needs to be provided.
3) Does establishing a branch office increase the accounting requirements from the financial office?
Kind regards
Kind regards
Dear inquirer,
By chance, I am just now seeing your question - directly addressed to me.
Thank you for your trust - in advance.
Now to your questions:
1) There is no need for a separate notification to the tax office. You can simply inform the trade office that you handle your orders at two (2) locations - so that you can specify your main office as your "home" address and your "branch" as the representative address. This way, it is documented that you are operating your business at both locations. As you mentioned to me, since these locations are in the same municipality, there should be no issues with splitting revenues or profits, for example for trade tax purposes.
2) Since you are registered and reachable at both addresses, it is up to you to decide which address to use on invoices or in your correspondence. An extra mention of the "main branch" is not necessarily required, as you (as the head of the company) can be found and operating at both locations.
3) As long as the two "branches" are within the same municipality, the simple answer is NO.
I hope this helps.
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Kind regards,
Ralph J. Schnaars
STWB Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH
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