Tag: Capital gains tax
Grace period for longtime Warburg boss Olearius
Private bank MM Warburg & CO The interim proceedings against the former top banker Christian Olearius of the private bank will be postponed. (Photo: IMAGO/Hanno Bode) Cologne Serious breakdown at…
Convicted Warburg banker fails with constitutional complaint
Lady Justice statue According to the Constitutional Court, the verdict is unobjectionable. (Photo: dpa) Cologne Christian S., ex-plenipotentiary of the Hamburg private bank MM Warburg Bank, has failed with his…
Bonn district court allows charges against four Duet fund managers
passers-by in London The main suspect in this case is the head of the London fund company Duet. (Photo: Reuters) Cologne The fund company Duet from London is only known…
Bitcoin and Co.: Doubts about crypto taxation
Bitcoin It was not until 2022 that the Federal Ministry of Finance published specific instructions for the tax offices on how crypto profits should be taxed. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Some…
KPMG Law separates from suspicious partner after raid
Frankfurt skyline Apparently, KPMG Law was late in recognizing that one of its partners was no longer tenable. (Photo: Reuters) Cologne It’s over again after less than six months: KPMG…
Comdirect: Commerzbank has to pay damages
Commerzbank subsidiary Comdirect Due to an IT problem, the issuance of the annual tax certificate at Commerzbank and Comdirect has been enormously delayed for many customers. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Commerzbank…
Investigators are frisking BNP Paribas in Frankfurt
Dusseldorf Since Tuesday, around 130 public prosecutors, tax investigators and police officers have searched the offices of the major French bank BNP Paribas in Frankfurt and the private homes of…
Dispute between WestLB successors goes to the Federal Court of Justice
Portigon flags The institute wants to use legal means to force the first liquidation institution to take over the tax authorities’ claims for reimbursement. (Photo: dpa) Cologne, Frankfurt The billion-euro…
Investigators search law firm and other company
Frankfurt skyline The public prosecutor’s office confirmed that “as of today, they are executing a search warrant against a law firm in Frankfurt am Main”. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The commercial…
Investigators search law firm and other company
Frankfurt skyline The public prosecutor’s office confirmed that “as of today, they are executing a search warrant against a law firm in Frankfurt am Main”. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf The commercial…
Bantleon buys in Germany
Zurich skyline The Swiss are expanding their German business. (Photo: The Image Bank/Getty Images) Zurich, Frankfurt The asset manager Bantleon, which specializes in bond investments, is strengthening itself with an…
What the preliminary fee on fund income means for investors
calculator and banknotes The advance lump sum on investment funds is due on a fictitious income that investors have achieved with their fund allocations. (Photo: imago images/MiS) Frankfurt Rising interest…
NRW has to bear tax debts from WestLB cum-ex transactions
WestLB successor company Portigon Portigon, the legal successor to the broken-up Landesbank WestLB, loses in court and has to pay for tax liabilities from cum-ex transactions. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt, Dusseldorf…
Hanno Berger appeals to the Federal Court of Justice
Cum-Ex trial against tax attorney Hanno Berger The 72-year-old was a driving force in the share deals, in which financial players staged a confusion about the dividend record date and…
Hanno Berger appeals to the Federal Court of Justice
Cum-Ex trial against tax attorney Hanno Berger The 72-year-old was a driving force in the share deals, in which financial players staged a confusion about the dividend record date and…
First convicted ex-top banker from MM Warburg has to serve a prison sentence
MM Warburg & Co., involved in the Cum-Ex scandal The convict was part of the private bank. (Photo: IMAGO/Hanno Bode) Dusseldorf A long, successful career ends behind bars. More than…
Eight years in prison for tax attorney Hanno Berger
Hanno Berger The 72-year-old has had a deep fall. He was once one of the most renowned tax lawyers. Now he has been sentenced to the highest prison sentence to…
Cum-Ex process: Hanno Berger convicted
They called him the master, the cum-ex guru. Now he should go to jail. The Bonn Regional Court has sentenced the 72-year-old former star lawyer Hanno Berger to eight years…
Tax attorney Hanno Berger has to go to prison for many years
Hanno Berger The 72-year-old has had a deep fall. He was once one of the most renowned tax lawyers. Now he has been sentenced to the highest prison sentence to…
The problem with the withholding tax
Dusseldorf Anyone who takes foreign shares into their portfolio usually pays too much tax on dividends. The reason: When the dividend is paid, the tax authorities in the respective home…