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Avoiding Compliance Risks for International Managers

17.12.2019 | Ecovis advises legal representatives, board members or company managers on how to meet compliance regulations in China. Der Beitrag Avoiding Compliance Risks for International Managers erschien zuerst auf...


Another tax haven leaks – Leak at Cayman National Bank

04.12.2019 | While it had been very quiet for a long time to uncover possible tax savings models in former tax havens, this week the bad news for investors in...


Purchase of new tax data – this time from the tax haven Belize

04.12.2019 | Belize, located in the southeast of the Yucatán Peninsula and popular with divers for its many coral reefs, has been considered a very discreet tax haven. Now, however,...


Liability and criminal tax proceedings against managing directors, straw man managing directors and factual managing directors of a GmbH

15.11.2019 | Again and again, we have to defend cases in which the question has to be clarified who is responsible under tax and criminal tax law for tax evasion...


The Federal Supreme Court demands a more restrained handling of the „combined fine and imprisonment“ (BGH, judgment of 19 March 2019 – 1 StR 367/18).

13.08.2019 | The Federal Supreme Court has reversed and referred back to the appeal of the public prosecutor’s office a judgment for tax evasion amounting to millions as possibly too...


The tax administration is arming itself in the fight against VAT fraud

28.06.2019 | After the EU member states lose up to 60 billion euros each year through VAT fraud, the EU Commission recently presented a new countermeasure. It is an analysis...


Panama: A Former Tax Haven

05.06.2019 | On March 13, 2019, after intense analysis and dialogue, the finance ministers from the Europe- an Union removed Panama from the list of “tax haven” countries. This means...


Germany is putting pressure on dubious tax arrangements

27.05.2019 | In line with the EU directive on the obligation to report certain forms of fiscal cross-border transaction, Germany is also considering imposing such an obligation for purely domestic...


EU Financial Protection Strengthening Act – Criminal law amendments to protect the financial interests of the European Union

04.03.2019 | The Director of Tax Research LLP and Professor of International Political Economy Practice at the University of London, Mr Richard Murphy, published a report in January 2019  according...


Own fault yardstick for determining default surcharges

25.02.2019 | In the hearing of 12.12.2018 - B 12 R 15/18 R - the Federal Social Court reversed the judgment of the North Rhine Westphalia State Social Court of...