14.12.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Hello,
I am the managing partner (30% share) of a GmbH, 62 years old.
The GmbH has 3 other shareholders with shares of 30%, 20%, and 20% respectively.
The company has promised me a pension, which will be due in 2022.
The pension has been secured ...
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28.03.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Dear Mr. Christiansen,
Thank you for your advice, I have another question.
Reminder of the key points:
My husband and I own two apartments, each 50% / 50%.
We will sign the gift contract for apartment No. 1 at the beginning of April and a few weeks...
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29.01.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Hello dear experts,
I have been to my tax advisor and would like to obtain a second opinion regarding the classification of my UG (German limited liability company).
The situation is as follows: I have founded a holding UG with the business purpose...
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11.03.2018 | answered by Oliver Burchardt
Dear Sir or Madam,
In 2004 I purchased a house for a price of 400,000 euros. The house was divided into two residential units, a practice part on the upper floor and a residential part on the ground floor (the value for the upper apartment was estim...
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16.07.2016 | answered by Frank-Olaf Illiges
Dear Sir or Madam,
The following situation:
Starting next month, I will be working freelance as an emergency doctor on the side. The fee for this service is, as far as I know, exempt from VAT. At the same time, I will also be receiving a consulting...
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31.05.2016 | answered by Grit Weidauer
Question regarding value added tax law:
My company receives commissions mainly from outside the EU. The commissions are for the referral of customers generated through the internet. The customers are generated by directing interested parties to cert...
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29.05.2016 | answered by Patrick Färber
Dear Sir or Madam,
Below are my questions regarding the income tax return as an employee with limited tax liability in the year of moving out of Germany.
My Situation:
Since March 2013, I (German citizen) have been employed by a company in Thuring...
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12.12.2015 | answered by Tobias Heinrich
The question should actually appear in 2 parts, but it is not formatted correctly.
The first part - Confirmation of tax-free sale, the 2nd part - Explanation of the procedure.
I am German and have been living in the UK since around 2007, paying my t...
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22.07.2015 | answered by Tobias Heinrich
Good day,
I am a 23-year-old student who has not had a part-time job so far and is privately insured through my parents (who are civil servants). I will now start working as a freelance contributor for various newspaper editorial offices. My monthly...
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17.07.2015 | answered by Anton Pernitschka
I am the sole shareholder of an IT GmbH, which has not generated any revenues since mid-2013. Since May 2014, my wife has been appointed as the sole managing director. Due to a pension commitment (shareholder managing director), I have been receiving...
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29.06.2015 | answered by Anton Pernitschka
Income tax? - Mother-in-law, retiree, old-age pension € 894.40/month, widow's pension € 897.79/month
In the future, the purchase of two nursing homes for € 120,000.00 each, depreciation 2%, total monthly rental income € 1100.00.
How much income tax...
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18.06.2015 | answered by Anton Pernitschka
I am a freelance software developer and offer project-specific customizations ("consulting") for my custom software also abroad. The software is self-programmed, the customers are always entrepreneurs. Now I need details regarding the USA. I have bee...
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12.04.2015 | answered by Patrick Färber
Dear Sir or Madam,
I ceased my small business as a disc jockey in August 2014. My taxable income for the year 2014 is €2,821. I sold DJ equipment (such as speakers, amplifiers, etc.) for a total of €3,870. I transferred assets worth €2,200 into my p...
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02.02.2015 | answered by Ralph J. Schnaars
Hello,
I have the following question...
Key data:
Sole proprietorship business for business consulting
§4 para. 3 tax code
In 2011, silver coins were purchased for 20,000 euros and booked as goods (expense-profit-reducing) voluntary BV (economic c...
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02.02.2015 | answered by Ralph J. Schnaars
A question about the taxation of death benefits from an inheritance.
After the death of my father, I was determined by the probate court to be the sole heir, but I have to pay out 50% of the inheritance to my sister. For the death benefit, I had to g...
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17.01.2015 | answered by Ralph J. Schnaars
1. Question about value-added tax
In December 2013, a newly founded complementarity company issued a (single) invoice showing a value-added tax of €13.53. At the beginning of 2014, the annual report was submitted. Due to the restriction to whole numb...
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16.12.2014 | answered by Tobias Heinrich
Hello,
first some facts about my current situation: I am employed full-time and operate a sole proprietorship as a sideline business (of course with the consent of my employer), both are broadly speaking services in the IT industry.
As the business ...
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03.12.2014 | answered by Ralph J. Schnaars
G lives in Germany and is the sole shareholder of "IT Solutions GmbH" in Germany and the sole shareholder of the Cypriot "Marketing Ltd.". The Marketing Ltd. has a referral agreement with a business consulting GmbH from Germany. For each mandate reco...
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05.04.2014 | answered by Ralph J. Schnaars
Hello,
I have programmed my own credit-based (prepaid) customer web interface (online customer system) where you can automatically rent voice chat servers (and soon other servers/services) . You can load your credit beforehand via the following paym...
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25.11.2013 | answered by Patrick Färber
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have a question regarding taxes in Germany. I have been living in Switzerland for 2 years and recently purchased a property in Germany. I am completely de-registered in Germany.
1. What percentage do I have to pay taxes on rent...
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12.10.2013 | answered by Anton Pernitschka
Hello,
due to a change of tax advisor, there have been significant delays in filing the tax return for the year 2011. My old tax advisor took considerable time until the end of September this year to transmit the data to my new tax advisor. After my...
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02.07.2013 | answered by Patrick Färber
Siblings A and B own a house X and a plot of land Y as joint heirs after the death of their father.
The joint inheritance is to be dissolved for the house X (A buys B's half), while they both want to continue owning the plot of land together.
Pleas...
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26.06.2013 | answered by Yanqiong Bolik
Dear Sir or Madam,
I will be working for an Austrian company from Munich starting in October. The company has not been active in Germany before. My future boss wants to start the employment with a so-called consulting contract. Does this mean that I...
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25.06.2013 | answered by Thomas Textoris
Situation: A GmbH managing director who is not subject to mandatory pension insurance takes on a consulting mandate for an external company in addition to his managing director duties, for a scope of 6 hours per week. The fee is to be paid directly t...
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31.05.2013 | answered by Thomas Textoris
Dear Sir or Madam,
As a freelancer, I advise a Spanish company and provide my services in Spain. So far, I have invoiced the German branch of the Spanish company.
I am eligible for the small business regulation and do not charge any VAT.
Now I am ...
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