Experts that make your Business in Germany safe

Trust our company that has a network of specialists like tax consultants and lawyers and years of experience in helping foreign companies to do their VAT fillings and more. Our head office is located in Darmstadt the fourth biggest city in the Rhein-Main Region of Germany, which is only 30 kilometers away of Frankfurt am Main, the leading european city for finance and banking. In Frankfurt am Main is also the European Central Bank located. The office you will have contact to when selling in Germany is always the so called “Finanzamt” which is the tax office of Germany. There are more than one tax offices for different regions.

(Finanzamt = German Tax office)

When you are running online business in Germany we will help you to comply with all laws regarding the business in Germany. Although some basic laws are the same for all European Countries, each country in Europe has very specific law that enterprises should not break in order to avoid legal conflicts. These conflicts could arise by a break of customer law, company law, tax law or other laws.

Your company needs to pay the VAT to the German Tax office by law. Every company needs to make a VAT declaration based on their VAT dept of the last business year. But their are some exceptions that your legal advisor should check carefully. See for example the Distance Selling rules of the European Union.

 

The VAT declaration is to make monthly, per quarter or once a year depending on that

• Don´t miss that. If your company does not transfer the VAT to the German tax office it could be seen as fraud.

As many newspapers reported the German Government has already enacted a new draft LAW that will obligate Online Plattforms like Amazon or Ebay to ensure that foreign enterprises pay their VAT. Usually any company that is selling inside Germany has to pay the VAT by VAT-Return to the German tax office.

 

What steps are needed to run a safe business in Germany from point of VAT-Side?

• Your company needs to get registered at the German tax office.
• Your company will get a Tax number first.
• With the tax number you can register the VAT-ID – called USt-IdNr. in Germany
• Your consultants must do your Vat pre-registration and fill the Vat reports