If German tax law was a river flowing over all businesstransactions and commercial accounting, thelast words of Norman Maclean in A River Runs ThroughIt best suit the traditional relationship between commercialand tax accounting. For more than 100 yearsthe principle of strict book-tax conformity...

In this article, we use the expression ‘‘holding haven’’to describe a tax jurisdiction with a very attractivelegal framework for holding companies. Holdinghaven regimes are more sophisticated thanconventional tax haven regimes, demanding more infrastructureand business activities....

Steuerplanung mit Holdinggesellschaften:Steuerliche Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten international tätigen Unternehmen

This Article highlights that federal financial reporting's failure to accrue future years' tax revenue effects of taxpayers' temporary book-tax differences leads to omission of trillions of dollars of net “federal deferred tax assets” and related distortion of true annual deficits. This...

This contribution addresses the substantial tax privilege for businesses introduced by the German InheritanceTax Act 2009. Advocates of the vast or even entire tax exemption for businesses stress the potentialdamage of the inheritance tax on businesses, as those often lack liquidity to meet tax...