Our German tax team comprises 14 tax specialists, many of whom are dual- or triple-licensed as certified tax advisors, public accountants and/or lawyers. A part of the team focuses primarily on international taxation and has extensive experience with respect to the German CFC rules, the impact of EU law on national tax law, the application of double taxation treaties as well as with representing clients in mutual agreement procedures. We maintain close contact with representatives of the German tax authorities responsible for international taxation as well as with representatives of the OECD, in order to inform you about fiscal developments at an early stage. This enables you to adapt your international activities to recent developments in German taxation in a timely manner.

Our areas of focus include:

• International corporate tax planning
• Tax field audit monitoring
• Advice on administrative assistance procedures
• VAT refund procedures
• Implementation of tax optimized supply chains
• Withholding tax refund procedures
• Advice on transfer pricing issues
• Mutual agreement procedures
• Tax structuring of international transactions

Our approach

The tax authorities of many countries strive for closer cooperation on an international level. This effort is accompanied by numerous supranational regulations and international treaties such as the mutual assistance directive, the FATCA agreement as well as the revision of numerous double taxation treaties. For you as a tax payer, this leads to a growing need to coordinate tax matters not only locally, but on a global level.

In order to assist you with this challenge, we cooperate closely with our colleagues in our global tax team. Dentons offers you one of the largest and most renowned international tax practices among global law firms. This enables us to efficiently optimize your international activities from a tax perspective and to ensure the consistency of tax audits in different countries.

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Recent Press Releases

Dentons advises transport and logistics company GEODIS on acquisition of trans‑o‑flex

March 9, 2023

Germany: Global law firm Dentons has advised transport and logistics company GEODIS on the acquisition of logistics service provider trans-o-flex, which specializes in the temperature-controlled transport of pharmaceutical and high-tech products.

Dentons advises Stabilus on change of legal form to SE and transfer of registered office from Luxembourg to Germany

September 5, 2022

Global law firm Dentons has advised Stabilus on its change of legal form to a European company (SE) and the subsequent transfer of its registered office from Luxembourg to Germany.

Dentons advises shareholders on sale of 8080 Labs to US-based Databricks

October 7, 2021

Global law firm Dentons has advised the shareholders of 8080 Labs GmbH on the sale of all shares in the company to US-based technology unicorn Databricks. The parties have agreed not to disclose the purchase price.

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