STORCH NILGES
Conquering the German market requires foreign companies to concentrate on their core competences.
Do you want to familiarise yourselves personally with the local red tape, or would you prefer to concentrate on what you’ve really come to Germany for: do business?
How much time do you factor in for meeting bureaucratic requirements ….? Our core competence is to help you reduce this workload …
The increasingly stringent requirements applying for corporate governance and compliance with the local statutory stipulations constitute an additional challenge for internationally operating companies that should never be underestimated. So internationally operating companies need responsively professional local partners in order to satisfy these requirements. Companies have to operate under enormous cost pressure, and their commercial success is particularly dependent on making optimum use of the resources available, and on reducing the costs involved. With our full service package, we offer you an opportunity to concentrate fully on the essentials of your business, by trusting us to handle compliance in Germany.
We can help you with:
- tax
- legal matters (e.g. employment contracts)
- administration
- corporate secretarial services
Tax
Internationally operating companies need an on-the-spot tax service. Reliable compliance with all tax-related obligations is essential for sustained operations in Germany. Tax compliance is a major focus for local operations. Compliance with transfer pricing regulations and documentation in Germany helps to minimise both local and global tax burdens. If the formal requirements are not properly met, you are threatened with additional tax demands and possible fines. Tax law is highly dynamic in Germany as well, and fast reactions to legislative changes are vital. In addition, contacts with the German inland revenue should be fostered, not only for tax formalities, but also in the event of an IR audit.
We offer you tax planning and tax compliance in the following categories:
- corporate taxes
- indirect taxes
- transfer pricing regulations and documentation
- personal taxes on expatriates
Legal matters
Your German customers will expect you to show a sound familiarity with the nation’s legal practice. So appropriately formulated contracts in line with German law are an indispensable precondition for doing business with German consumers. The EU’s harmonised standards are gradually being adopted, and at present your customers will not be reposing a large amount of trust in them. But your vendors, too, and particularly your employees, lessors, etc. will also expect you to deal competently with German legislative idiosyncrasies. We accordingly offer you our legal advice in the following fields:
- company start-ups
- contract formulation
- agreements with customers and vendors, including general terms and conditions
- labor legislation
- commercial tenancy law
Administration
Your company’s operations in Germany have to be administered with affordable efficiency, while still maintaining your international reporting standards. We accordingly offer you an option for outsourcing your accounting operations, coupled with a reporting system responsively matched to your specific corporate needs. This ensures that both the internal deadlines are met and the taxation requirements are complied with. Germany’s complex social insurance legislation also offers opportunities for cutting wage costs, accessible only to those with the requisite knowledge. We will assist your company management in the following fields:
- accounting
- reporting
- payroll services
Corporate secretarial services
In the current climate of more stringent corporate governance and international regulation, multinational organisations are increasingly aware of their obligations to meet statutory compliance requirements in all the territories in which they operate. Dependable compliance with these requirements necessitates detailed knowledge of the local obligations involved. In this field, too, resource-economical, affordable solutions have to be identified.
To meet statutory compliance requirements, we offer you our service packages for company administration in the following categories:
- maintenance of registers and corporate records in accordance with local law
- preparation and filing of annual and other statutory returns in the prescribed format
- meeting local filing deadlines to avoid penalties on late submissions
- documenting annual director / shareholder meetings
- local registered office address
About us
We’re a small, flexible team, blending our knowledge, training and experience to offer internationally operating companies full service support for tax and legal matters. We’ve been helping our clients to manage their business operations in Germany since 1999.
Eva Storch
Lawyer
Specialised lawyer for tax law
Tax consultant
Eva Storch
after studying law and completing the statutory training period, worked from 1993 to June 1999 at the auditors KPMG Deutsche Treuhandgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft in the legal and tax department, and after qualifying as a tax consultant in 1997 was promoted to manager. As a self-employed attorney and tax consultant, she has in the partnership since 1999 concentrated principally on advising the subsidiaries of foreign group companies and the general managers, directors and supervisory board members of stock corporations. Ms Storch has been a registered attorney since August 1994, and since February 2000 a qualified specialist in tax law.
Dipl.- Oec. Regine Nilges
Tax consultant
Regine Nilges
after studying economics from 1993 to 1998, worked for the auditors KPMG Deutsche Treuhandgesellschaft Aktiengesellschaft Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft as an executive in the legal and tax department. After qualifying as a tax consultant on 18 March 1998, she went freelance as a tax consultant. Her consultancy remit covers questions involving tax returns and tax formalities, plus operational corporate planning. She also assists with company start-ups and fast-growing firms, each of them with their own specific problems.
Our location
Viersen
Schöffengasse 19
41751 Viersen
Tel.: +49 (0)2162/57 88 07 8
Fax: +49 (0)2162/51 00 07
E-Mail: storch@storch-nilges.de
Kaarst
Bachstraße 2
41564 Kaarst
Tel.: +49 (0)2131/51 00 06
Fax: +49 (0)2131/51 00 07
E-Mail: nilges@storch-nilges.de