Ignorance is no defense against punishment!

The tax auditor has interrupted the external audit and suddenly has to go on further training? You indulge in the popular sport of “saving taxes” and receive mail from the tax authorities? Your inherited estate contains previously unknown foreign accounts? On Monday morning, it’s not the letter carrier who rings your doorbell but the tax investigators?

These (and other) situations are our profession. Frightening, unfamiliar and extremely stressful for you. Familiar territory for us.

More and more often, seemingly straightforward tax disputes and questions of tax interpretation are turning into criminal tax proceedings. In this situation, you need a cool head and competent advisors at your side.

We start where your tax advisor leaves off. We support you when it becomes too legal for the tax advisor and too tax-related for the lawyer. Our interdisciplinary team manages the “triple jump” between tax disputes, criminal proceedings and a commercially sensible result.

For example, we take care of

• Support for tax audits “infected” by criminal tax law
• Criminal tax law “co-counseling” together with your tax advisor
• Correction of tax returns and declarations
• Self-disclosures
• Money laundering advice
• Implementation of a so-called “Tax Compliance Management System”
• Criminal, tax and social security law support for so-called “illegal wage cases”
• Provision of witness counsel
• Accompaniment during searches of private and business premises
• Representation in the main hearing together with experienced criminal defense lawyers