17.01.2022 | answered by Andreas Scholz
Topic: Tax audit 2017 to 2019
Which emails do I have to show the tax auditor, or can he freely search the email archive and read all emails, or only read the emails that include invoices for the period 2017-2019? Can he also read the content of cont...
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24.06.2021 | answered by Jasmin Pesla
Background:
A lawyer is hired by the legal protection insurance for out-of-court representation. The client wanted to take legal action immediately, as he had been in out-of-court correspondence with the other party for months without reaching a sati...
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07.09.2019 | answered by Jasmin Pesla
Hello,
28 years ago, we bought a caravan and a well-built awning on a permanent campsite and took over the lease agreement for the pitch. Subsequently, we received yearly lease agreements from the campsite operator.
Now, the former operator has sold ...
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19.07.2019 | answered by Jasmin Pesla
Hello,
Assuming one has tickets for an event that are checked using a code at the entrance. Now, if this code falls into criminal hands, and fake tickets are sold by this criminal person, many buyers will not be allowed into the event, resulting in f...
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07.01.2019 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
Hello, we had a tall conifer in the garden (25m) that we removed at our own expense in order to maintain neighborhood peace. The tree has caused disputes in the past, as its needles constantly clogged the rain gutter of an adjacent house. The removal...
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29.12.2016 | answered by Jan Wilking
Hello
For about 19 years, I have been working partly in field sales for a company. For 14 years, I was provided with a company car for private use, including fuel and a 1% rule. About 4 years ago, the company cars were removed and instead a car allo...
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19.10.2016 | answered by Andreas Scholz
A has been provided with a technician by a wholesaler, who is supposed to install an electrical part at A's place. After the work is done, A finds out that the technician is employed as a technician at the wholesaler, but is not self-employed on the ...
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03.08.2016 | answered by Jan Wilking
A widow has two children and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Due to advancing age, mobility impairments, and dementia following a stroke, she could no longer stay in her own apartment and had to be admitted to a nursing home for long-t...
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06.11.2015 | answered by Jan Wilking
Maintenance as a gift under inheritance law
Until the death of my mother, my sister lived alone and completely free of charge in my mother's condominium. My sister consciously chose to forgo housing benefits from the social welfare office.
Now, aft...
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29.07.2015 | answered by Stefan Steininger
I have recently started working at a music school. Now I have given a trial lesson to a potential customer for the music school. There is no signed contract between this potential customer and the music school. For various reasons, this customer has ...
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01.04.2015 | answered by Jan Wilking
Hello!
We bought a vacation home in France in August 2006. At that time, we were living in Paris on rent. For a few years now, we have been living back in Germany, where I also pay my income tax.
Since we are using our vacation home in France less an...
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14.10.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
Dear Sir or Madam,
I participated in a Gbr in 2010. The business did not go as expected. Unfortunately, my personal savings were used up faster than hoped. I borrowed 2500,-€ privately from an acquaintance in 2010 for another investment in the compa...
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31.07.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
A German acquaintance of mine has fathered a child in the Philippines, who will turn 11 years old this year. Because the mother and the child live in poverty, I have repeatedly asked him to take financial responsibility for his child, but he refuses....
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07.06.2014 | answered by Jasmin Pesla
In short:
As a tenant of a property, do I have to tolerate the landlord placing a flag in a holder attached to the property twice a year for the purpose of local pilgrimages? Or do I, as the tenant, have superior rights over the landlord and can re...
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03.06.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
And once again, "heating turned off":
It is to be assumed that our landlord turned off the heating about 4 weeks ago due to various disputes. Absolutely nothing is working, all radiators remain cold day and night - hot water is still functioning. Ho...
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02.06.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
We are tenants in a single-family house. The tank has probably never been cleaned or it has been decades since it was last cleaned. The house is now 40 years old. We have been tenants for only 5 years.
The heating system constantly failed due to bur...
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13.05.2014 | answered by Mikael Varol
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have one final question regarding the matter mentioned multiple times:
We have rented a property, the rent is covered by the job center. The property is actually larger and slightly more expensive than the maximum rate allowed ...
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13.05.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
Rent dispute, round 5:
Dear Sir or Madam, in the context of certain disputes with the landlord, there is a new question: Several weeks ago, we discovered a blockage in our toilet that could not be fixed with the usual methods. We informed the landlo...
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07.05.2014 | answered by Jan Wilking
Dear Sir or Madam,
Based on my previous good experiences, I would like to clarify a final matter in terms of rental law or find out a possible trend. I am aware that street noise as a reason for rent reduction is a delicate issue and often tends to ...
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13.09.2013 | answered by Jan Wilking
Since 2005, I have been recognized as occupationally disabled by the LVA and have been fighting for a pension with the Bau - BG Wuppertal since then. I have several herniated discs, which have occurred due to occupational reasons, a damaged shoulder ...
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21.05.2013 | answered by Dr. Danjel-Philippe Newerla
As a creditor, I have a claim against a private individual for the remaining payment for the sold residential property (which has been occupied by him since the beginning of the insolvency), however, a bank as a lender has a significantly higher outs...
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24.04.2013 | answered by Bernhard Müller
My brother wants to transfer our parental home to me. In exchange for a lifetime annuity or in installments. In any case, a right of residence should be entered for him. This right of residence should be linked to my brother's obligation to cancel it...
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06.06.2012 | answered by Steffan Schwerin
Hello,
I urgently need your advice. I am permanently employed and my company is paying for my MBA studies for the next 2 years. For the past year, I have been systematically bullied by my supervisor. Unfortunately, there is no works council in my de...
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03.05.2012 | answered by Andreas Scholz
Dear Sir or Madam,
we would like to sell our property and have given a qualified sole agency mandate to a broker, which includes the following passage:
"This qualified sole agency mandate relates to the provision of potential buyers or the negotiat...
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24.03.2012 | answered by Jan Wilking
The questioner is a provider of a small profession-specific online software that is sold "as is" or that can be changed/rebuilt at a cost according to the buyer's layout and/or functionality requirements. How and by what means the predetermined goal ...
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