Thanks to our expertise in complex tax matters we can devise highly specific concepts for different corporations. We can draw on extensive experience in legal fields such as tax law, corporate law, trade law, inheritance law, family law, the law of obligations and others. Our concepts are legally sound, sustainable and tailored to fit your personal situation.
In addition to our own in-house expertise we have access to an extensive network of partners and experts in adjacent fields. This gives our clients access to additional know-how and resources that go beyond pure tax consultancy. When required, we can introduce you to specialized lawyers, accountants or other experts to ensure that you receive comprehensive advice that covers all relevant aspects.
Our 26 years of experience in dealing with the complex tax affairs of corporations have given us a deep understanding of the specific challenges and how to respond to them. Rather than reverting to off-the-shelf concepts, we develop a solution that brings the greatest possible benefit to you and your company.
We can offer a tax-optimized solution allowing you to enjoy a tax rate of just 1.5% when selling GmbH shares, while setting up a family holding company in order to prepare for inheritance and succession.
We develop a strategy to ensure you pay a tax rate of 14% on company profits. By incorporating a family holding company in the overall structure, we can also efficiently take account of inheritance and succession aspects.
By including a family holding company in the overall structure, we assist companies in reducing their tax rate to a mere 1.5% over a period of 7 years. Furthermore, this approach allows for optimal tax structures in view of future inheritance or succession.
We support the shareholders of corporations in paying a reduced tax rate of 1.5% on profit distributions rather than their usual income tax rate.
We focus exclusively on project work. Given our highly specialized expertise, we do not offer any services in the fields of financial or payroll accounting.
In some cases, however, it might be expedient when reorganizing your corporate structures for us to prepare the annual financial statements and the corresponding tax returns for the years in question.
Our approach does not cover providing answers to individual and particular questions. We rather specialize in providing integral tax consultancy services to corporations with complex requirements and a need for strategic action.
We concentrate primarily on corporations that are seeking to obtain all-encompassing tax structuring and planning for the next couple of years. We therefore do not offer our services to corporations with profit of less than EUR 500,000.
Mr. A.Managing director and owner
Bakery GmbH
Private real estateused by the bakery, therefore business assets
Stepping down as managing directorTax bombdue to the real estate held as business assetsFamily holding GmbH & Co. KGNewly founded, holds the real estate; owner: Mr. A.Bakery GmbHExisting GmbH, operating business
ManagementEmployed managing director possiblewithout triggering the tax bombMr. A. is the managing director of a corporation, i.e. a German limited company (GmbH), and wishes to retire from the company and to hire a new managing director.
The predicament is that he has several privately owned properties that are used by the GmbH and are therefore automatically included in the company’s business assets.
From a tax perspective, this is a problem as the sale of the properties would entail a high tax burden.
To prevent this problem, the real estate was transferred to a family holding company (in the form of a family holding GmbH & Co. KG).
The existing GmbH was set up as a subsidiary of the family holding company, and Mr. A. became the managing director of the non-operating parent company. Thus, it was possible to hire a new managing director for the operating subsidiary without triggering the adverse tax consequences of a real estate sale.
This corporate structure ensured that the properties are still closely connected to the company and are owned by the family company. The properties were contributed to the family holding company on the basis of their carrying amounts from the 1940s in order to avoid taxable gains. Furthermore, the properties were contributed to the GmbH & Co. KG by transferring them without consideration, thus avoiding taxable profit for the company.
My consulting services are billed by the hour (Thomas Breit: EUR 750 net/hour, employed tax advisors/lawyers: EUR 650 net/hour, employees: EUR 550 net/hour). The analysis and your objectives will determine which concept is the best fit for your needs. The total cost of implementing this chosen concept will depend on the actual amount of time needed for the implementation. An advance payment of EUR 20,000 plus statutory VAT is due when the order is placed (equivalent to the minimum fee). The conceptualization and implementation are always preceded by a cost-benefit analysis.
My fees are generally offset by the tax savings you achieve. The return on investment is between six months and no more than two years.
Additional costs may be incurred for court fees, notary costs and an expert for corporate law, depending on the project.
We can of course work together with your usual partners. Should you need experts, we have a good network of corporate law experts and notaries.
No, only in part and not permanently. What does that mean specifically? Due to our high degree of specialization, we do not offer financial and payroll accounting services. These remain with your usual accounting firm throughout the entire project.
However, we take care of the annual financial statements relating to the restructuring of your company. This reduces legal risks for you and allows our work results to be processed in the annual financial statements. We also handle correspondence with the tax office for all assessment issues and questions relating to the restructuring.
Once the project is complete, we hand the annual financial statements back to your usual firm and point out any special features.
No, never. 3,500 cases in 25 years – no slip ups.
Developing a concept takes between three and five years, depending on the project. In rare cases, it may take as many as seven years to implement a concept. However, the tax benefit takes effect from the very first year of our collaboration.
Yes and no. We are basically able to answer any questions concerning tax law. However, many of these questions can be answered just as well by other tax consultants with lower hourly rates, which is why we recommend you retain your usual tax consultant for such questions.
My expertise covers every legal aspect of civil law, such as private law, company law, commercial law, international tax law, inheritance law and much more. In a way, you can compare it to a general practitioner who knows about the heart but is not able to perform heart surgery. I am the cardiologist among tax advisors and consultants, and my specialty lies in providing comprehensive advice that goes beyond tax law itself.
With Thomas Breit Tax Consulting, you receive legally binding tax office information, interdisciplinary expertise from 26 years of experience, and customized, future-proof tax concepts—legally compliant and based on German and European legal forms.
Our tax consultancy office can obtain a legally binding statement from the tax authorities on your behalf. With our help you can rest assured that your tax affairs are handled in compliance with the applicable legal provisions.
26 years of experience, including 20 years as a certified tax consultant and more than 3,500 successful cases, give me the expertise to optimally structure your individual tax situation and advise you on your succession planning.
By combining several legal fields like tax law, corporate law, trade law, inheritance law, family law, law of obligations and many more I draw up customized concepts that are legally sound and tailored to exactly fit your personal needs.
I work exclusively with German and European legal entities that are subject to taxation in Germany in order to ensure that we can optimally use the tax advantages and opportunities that these legal structures offer.
My models are highly flexible and can be easily adapted to accommodate any changes that might occur in the future. They are infallible and guarantee that your tax and legal matters are safe and in order for years to come.
Our clients value our exceptional expertise and tailor-made solutions. See for yourself how successful entrepreneurs have benefited from our tax consulting services.
I have felt very well looked after by Thomas Breit and his team from the very beginning. After receiving poor advice from other tax advisors, they brought order and structure back into my financial affairs.
Thomas Breit’s professional expertise is outstanding, and working with him is easy and straightforward. For me, one point is particularly important: The less I know about something myself, the more I need to be able to trust the person I am entrusting it to. Since Thomas Breit and his team stand out not only for their professional expertise but also for their personal approach, that trust is absolutely there. I look forward to many more years of a successful working relationship!AI-translated
Sonja Bleyl
There are very few tax firms that are so outstanding and so impressive.
In my opinion, it is impossible to find anyone who can match the quality, passion and energy of Thomas and his team – not even close. Thomas has a rare and indescribable gift and we are overjoyed to have found him.
Christian Behrens
As the managing director of Savitor GmbH, I spent a long time looking for a solution to the challenges we were facing and came to Thomas Breit via referral.
From day one, Mr. Breit left a competent & binding impression and was quick to approach the task professionally. The result is exactly the solution we wanted – thank you very much!
Stephan Witte
Mr. Breit attaches great importance to finding the optimal structure that is easy to implement on a daily basis, so that he really does stand out from the crowd of “tax administrators”. His proposals are highly sophisticated and thought through to the last little detail.
He succeeds in realizing concepts that last for years because he thinks out of the box. We clearly recommend Thomas Breit as a tax consultant.
Peter Maurer
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