Organisations within the financial services sector face a changing landscape marked by various factors including COVID 19 regulatory reform, disruptive technology, and new service delivery channels. B&Is also face new governance concerns, intense internal and external scrutiny, and a mounting...
Pursuant to § 146a AO (Fiscal Code of Germany) new rules for "Guidelines for accounting and record-keeping using electronic record-keeping systems'" apply as of January 1, 2020. This refers to electronic cash register systems and cash registers, but also to corresponding modules of larger...
On 3 December 2020, the German Federal Ministry of Finance [Bundesfinanzministerium, “BMF”] issued the “Administrative Principles 2020” [Verwaltungsgrundsätze 2020, “AP 2020”], not yet published in the Federal Fiscal Bulletin at the moment of going to press, which replace the Administrative...
German tax auditors increasingly focus on cross border transactions between German companies and other affiliates or permanent establishments.
Withholding tax relief modernization act, dated November 19th of 2020 Selected Topics: Procedure of relief from capital gains tax (sec. 50c ITA-D) as well as restructuring of sec. 50d (3) ITA
ARUG II entered into force
The Corona pandemic still has the world firmly in its grip and economies worldwide are struggling with negative implications. Nonetheless, the period of temporarily reduced German VAT, which was meant to reduce the economic impact of the springtime shutdown and stimulate consumption, is coming to...
The draft of the Act on the Modernisation of the Deduction Tax Relief and Certification of Capi-tal Gains Tax - the so-called Deduction Tax Relief Modernisation Act (AbzStEntModG) - submit-ted on 20 November 2020 primarily concerns the implementation of the deduction and refund procedure for...
Compliance with DAC 6 obligations