TAX ADVICE FOR COMPANIES
Steuerliche Gestaltungsberatung national/international
We take your personal economic circumstances into account in our consulting considerations for your company or your shareholding in order to offer you a holistic assessment.
In addition to your personal contact person for your questions, tax advice for your company includes the following range of services in particular:
- Succession planning and advice
- Advice in connection with real estate
- Advice on structuring and possible restructuring
- Assistance with tax audits and enforcement advice
- Value added tax assessments
- Liquidity planning
- Tax training for your staff
Enforcement advice during tax audits
Wedding & Partner accompanies you safely through your next tax audit with excellent tax understanding, many years of experience and sovereignty. In addition to the technical arguments, the avoidance of certain behavior patterns also plays an important role.
We recommend that you request our tax audit guide right away!
In addition, we also offer litigation before tax courts and support in proceedings before the Federal Fiscal Court.
Accompaniment of corporate transactions
Wedding & Partner accompanies you in the purchase or sale of a company and in the optimisation of your shareholding structure. We advise you individually beyond the closing.
Are your tax partner for:
- Purchase and sale of companies through transfer of company rights (share deal)
- Purchase and sale of companies through the acquisition of assets (asset deal)
- Mergers
- Change of legal form
- Contributions
Family businesses
Family entrepreneurs know best that their company has substantially different structures and processes than a shareholder-oriented company. That is why you need a special tax advisor at your side! We are happy to develop individual solutions together with the family.
We are your reliable partner and offer you advice on, among other things:
- Succession planning and inheritance tax
- Separation of business and private assets
- Restructuring
- Advisory and supervisory board functions
Family Offices
We are available as external advisors to single and multiple family offices.
If desired, we also offer family office services to family businesses ourselves.
Succession planning and inheritance tax advice
Our aim is to preserve and increase the substance of your company's assets across the generations.
We are happy to advise you on the following topics:
- Asset transfers
- Company succession
- Tax exemptions for business assets
- Tax-focused planning of succession clauses in partnership agreements
- Company valuation
- Restructuring
- SOS emergency folder
Real estate
We advise national and international investors on the structuring of existing real estate portfolios as well as on the investment in properties.
We advise you with regard to:
- Real estate taxation
- Asset management
- Liquidity analysis
- Real estate transfer tax
- Property tax
Transfer pricing
The audit of transfer pricing issues and their arm's length nature is clearly in the focus of the tax authorities and the documentation requirements have been further tightened across borders by the OECD's BEPS package of measures (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting). Wedding & Partner supports you on the one hand in the preparation of your group transfer prices (transfer pricing) and on the other hand in the argumentation and justification vis-à-vis the tax authorities.
We accompany you unerringly with the following services:
- Preparation of transfer pricing documentation (German / Japanese / English)
- national and international transfer pricing documentation
- Updating service
- Enforcement advice for tax audits
Tax Compliance Management
Even with the greatest care and attention to our knowledge and belief, errors can occur. To avert suspicion of tax evasion, it is advisable to set up a tax compliance management system. We support you in establishing structures that are compliant with tax law and in eliminating tax risks.
Wedding & Partner offers you support in:
- Creation of tax-focused corporate guidelines and tax manuals.
- Implementation of a tax internal control system (ICS)
- Tax compliance training for your staff
- Audit of existing Tay Compliance Management Systems (TCMS)
Tax Due Diligence
In our tax due diligence we identify the tax opportunities and risks in order to compile relevant tax information for your acquisition. The gained insights will initially be used for your purchase decision and subsequently for the contract negotiations. Our due diligence team accompanies you individually throughout the entire transaction. We also offer commercial and financial due diligence.
Annual financial statements and profit determination
Wedding & Partner sees the annual financial statement as the business card of your company. We proactively point out optimisation potential and are available to answer all your questions. In doing so, we keep an eye on both commercial and tax law. The big advantage: with us you get everything from a single source!
We offer you for your company the preparation and digital transmission of:
- Annual and consolidated financial statements according to German Commercial Code (HGB)
- Annual and consolidated financial statements according to IFRS
- Tax balance sheets
- Profit calculations
- E-balance sheets for the tax office
- Filing and disclosure versions for the Federal Gazette
Company taxes
We look into the tax situation of your company or group of companies with foresight, so that the tax burden becomes a predictable factor for you. Particularly in the case of family businesses, we also take your personal circumstances into account.
For your business or corporation or partnership, our services include preparing your tax returns for purposes of:
- Corporation tax
- Capital gains tax
- Trade tax
- VAT
- separate and uniform assessment
- limited tax liability
- training of your staff in tax law