Our team of experts is dedicated to reducing your gift tax burden to a minimum. With our excellent knowledge of the relevant laws and regulations we can develop effective tax strategies to optimize your tax payments.
We focus not only on tax issues, but also support you in developing a comprehensive family wealth plan. By combining inheritance tax aspects with inheritance and succession planning we can draw up individual and legally sound plans of action to optimally protect and pass on your assets.
If you are faced with a complex family structure, such as a patchwork family or if you have children that were born out of marriage or children from a second marriage, it is crucial to carefully plan your succession early on. In order to ensure that your assets are divided according to your wishes in such a family situation, we consider your wishes for the division of your assets while optimizing the gift tax burden that will be incurred.
As a specialized tax consultancy office, we carefully plan and implement measures in line with inheritance law, while also taking into account the relevant aspects of corporate and trade law. We use all the possibilities the inheritance tax law offers in order to achieve the best tax-related outcome for our clients and keep the tax burden as low as possible.
We support our clients in planning and making gifts without having to pay gift tax. By carefully analyzing your actual situation and by using suitable structuring options under tax law, we can help our clients make arrangements for their assets, ideally without having to pay gift tax.
We can help you design and set up a family holding company. By setting up a family holding company, assets can be transferred within the family with a minimal tax-related impact. Our expertise includes legal design and structuring of this type of company, enabling you to gift assets and reduce tax at the same time.
Our services as tax consultants for gift tax are aimed at larger projects where we provide our clients with comprehensive and holistic consultancy. This means we do not provide answers to individual questions that are not part of a larger project.
In order to ensure that we can offer our clients high quality consultancy services, we have determined a minimum order volume of EUR 20,000. This enables us to invest the required time and resources in carrying out thorough analysis, planning and implementation of all tax affairs in connection with gift tax and inheritance law. Please understand that we cannot accept orders with a lower volume.
Ms. T.70 years old, substantial private assetsLarge corporationEUR 900 million revenue, EUR 10 million profitSonnot yet involvedMs. T.
KGaANewly foundedGmbH & Co. KGNewly founded, holds 50% of the large company and private assetsSon holds 95%EUR 0gift tax, value approx. EUR 100 millionMs. T., 70 years old, owns 50% of a large corporation with annual revenue of EUR 900 million and a profit of EUR 10 million. She has a large private fortune.
We developed a solution involving a family holding company to transfer her property to the son while maintaining control over the company. We set up a partnership limited by shares (KGaA) and a limited partnership with a limited liability company as the sole general partner (GmbH & Co. KG) as a subsidiary. Her son contributed obligations to the company.
Our approach enabled the son to take over 95% of his mother’s 50% without having to pay gift tax. The value of these assets amounted to approximately EUR 100 million.
This structured transfer of assets not only led to considerable tax savings of tens of millions of euros, but also created a clear arrangement for the succession and inheritance of the large 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 was impressed from the very first contact with Thomas Breit and his compelling presentation of his approach. From the outset, he clearly understood what matters most to us in continuing our family business. With great strategic foresight, he developed individual, well-thought-out concepts for our future direction and succession planning.
Although the planning and implementation process is not yet complete, the path we have chosen feels exactly right for us. We feel we are in the best possible hands with Mr. Breit and his team, receiving highly professional support and, above all, feeling truly understood.
We are deeply grateful to have found Thomas Breit and his team — people who not only excel in their professional expertise, but who genuinely understand what matters to us as a family-owned business.
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Hermann Püthe
We came to Thomas Breit Tax Consultancy through a recommendation, and that recommendation turned out to be absolutely right.
What particularly impresses us about Mr. Breit and his team is their holistic view of our situation. It is not simply about tax optimization, but also about sensible long-term planning — whether that involves succession planning for our children, protecting our family, or making strategic decisions that will have a lasting impact over many years.
This forward-thinking approach, combined with an impressively well-organized operation and absolute punctuality in our day-to-day collaboration, makes Thomas Breit a true partner for us rather than just a service provider. In every conversation, we can tell that they are not simply managing things, but actively shaping them.
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Karin and Josef Bader
I have been working with Mr. Thomas Breit for years out of conviction.
Mr. Breit has far-reaching knowledge of tax laws, so that I always feel that I am in the best hands. He always answers any questions I have in connection with taxes. His office is extremely well organized and quite innovative. Full marks!
Sönke Pickenpack
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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