Bettina Knöfel

Bachelor of Arts (Hons)
Project Manager Communications

Antje Fieke

Executive Assistant
Assistant Tax Consultant

Ute Staib

Certified Accountant
Self-employed

Simon Peters

Diplom-Betriebswirt (equiv. to Master Bus. university of applied sciences)

Rebecca Martini

Bachelor in Business Administration

Susann Kuhring

Assistant Tax Consultant

Jeannette Kroggel

Assistant Tax Consultant

Jens Galle

Assistant Tax Consultant

Oksana Samodiy

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

EUREF Campus 12
10829 Berlin
Tel. +49 (0)(30) 23 08 95 0
Fax +49 (0)(30) 23 08 95 88
post@taxellenz.de

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Real estate

Real estate

The real estate business is currently undergoing considerable changes in Germany, and especially in Berlin. Government properties are being privatised, companies are giving up properties not needed for their businesses, and there is a steadily increasing number of international investors who make their investment decisions in favour of the German property market.

With our many years of experience, we offer real estate companies of all legal forms comprehensive tax advice. Besides preparing the annual financial statements and tax returns, in collaboration with our partner KSG AUDIT Wirtschaftprüfungsgesellschaft, auditing firm, our expertise also includes auditing them in accordance with national and international accounting regulations.

Furthermore, we provide support for closed-ended real estate investment funds, both within Germany and abroad. We assist with tax planning, arranging property investments and optimising real estate portfolios in regard to any acquisition and exit framework. We ascertain the fiscal value of your properties, calculate any speculative gains, provide a preview of the fiscal repercussions of major repairs or structural refurbishment, for example, and advise you on complex matters regarding property transfer tax.

Support

Support

For long-term, future-orientated tax planning, we offer you a broad spectrum of services to optimise your accounting. For any creative and effective fiscal advice builds upon careful and appropriate accounting.

Consultancy services

Consultancy services

Our consultancy services are geared towards the future. We would like to assist you with your long-term tax planning and develop efficient tax strategies for you. On this basis, we represent your interests vis-à-vis fiscal authorities, government auditors and fiscal courts.

Services

Services

We are service providers ourselves, and, for that reason, it is very relevant for us to provide competent fiscal support to service providers and members of the freelance professions, such as architects, lawyers or management consultants.

Freelancers in particular sometimes have special opportunities for tax planning, and knowing them and making full use of them can contribute considerably towards the financial leeway that they have. We assist you in all areas of your professional work, find the fiscal solutions that are best suited to your requirements, and, in this way, sustainably secure your economic success.

Media

Media

Due to many years’ experience, we have a broad understanding of the corporate models of the media industry – our clients include classic advertising agencies, as well as design offices, publishing houses and lobby companies.

We offer you support, from various different angles, with national and international tax advice, and advise you on how to handle intangible assets, such as film rights and licence agreements, on the balance sheet, from a fiscal perspective.

We assist you in successfully mastering present and future challenges posed to your media company.

Torge Kirchhoff

Torge Kirchhoff

Born in 1964
Commercial training
Employed at medium-sized businesses
Studied Economics in Berlin, with a focus on taxation
Diplom-Kaufmann/cf. Bachelor in Business Administration (University of Applied Sciences), 1995
Head of the Berlin Branch of a tax consultancy firm operating nationwide (1997-2001)
Tax consultant since 2001
Founding shareholder of the fiduciary and tax consultancy firm KSP CONSULTANTS in 2001
Partner at TAXELLENZ due to KSP merging with LTCON in 2014

  • Providing tax advice to companies, both within Germany and abroad
  • Corporate restructuring and reorganisation of real estate companies
  • Providing tax advice on closed-ended property and wind power funds
  • Architectural- and real estate development companies
  • Design and media agencies
  • Start-ups
  • Non-profit companies
  • Wealthy private customers

Pro bono work

  • Member of the Executive Board, DVI Deutsches Verpackungsinstitut e.V.
  • Member of the Executive Board, Association of Patrons of the Historic Monument Preservation Foundation in Berlin
  • Providing tax advice to the Historic Monument Preservation Foundation in Berlin
  • Member of the Supervisory Board, EUREF AG, Berlin (07/2007 to 06/2013)

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Optimisation

Optimisation

Our experience may become a decisive economic benefit for you. From establishing a company and choosing the right legal form to preparing annual financial statements, business valuations and special audits, we advise you comprehensively on figures, taxes and balance sheets.

Norbert Sieker

Norbert Sieker

Born in 1968
Studied Mathematics and Economics in Berlin, with a focus on taxation
Diplom-Kaufmann/cf. Bachelor in Business Administration (University of Applied Sciences), 1995
Qualified as a tax consultant since 2000
Founding shareholder of the fiduciary and tax consultancy firm KSP CONSULTANTS in 2001
Partner at TAXELLENZ through a merger of KSP with LTCON in 2014

  • Providing support and advice to members of the freelance professions (doctors, physiotherapists, lawyers, architects, journalists) and non-profit institutions
  • Providing tax advice on closed-ended property funds
  • Providing tax advice on limited liability companies and business partnerships, both within Germany and abroad, especially in the real estate industry
  • Appeal proceedings
  • Expert fiscal opinions and statements

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Healthcare

Healthcare

Members of the healthcare professions are often under a great deal of stress due to their professional tasks. The time is therefore often not available for them to clarify fiscal matters and optimise tax planning. Whether it is medical practices or hospitals, or anything in between, in the field of healthcare we offer a comprehensive payroll accounting service, right from the book-keeping up to preparing the annual financial statements and tax return.

Besides giving tax advice, we also competently assist you in matters such as establishing a local practice or financing the purchase of the practice, and assist you with business matters right up to the time that you give up the practice. We will be pleased to explain to you, at a personal meeting, how we can advise and assist you.

Ludger Tholen

Ludger Tholen

Born in 1967
Studied Business Administration at the Free University of Berlin, with a focus on taxation
Diplom-Kaufmann/cf. Bachelor in Business Administration, 1992
Employed at one of the world’s leading auditing and tax consultancy firms (“Big Four”), 1993-1999
Qualified as a Tax Consultant since 1997
Established own firm in 2000
The firm was converted into LTCON Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH, tax advisers, in 2010
Specialist Consultant on International Tax Law since 2013
Partner at TAXELLENZ through a merger of KSP with LTCON in 2014

  • Providing tax advice on limited liability companies and business partnerships, both within Germany and abroad, especially in the real estate and service industries
  • Designing and monitoring real estate investments in any legal form
  • Providing advice on legal form and structural matters (focusing on real estate investments and any fund framework)
  • Advising on investment decisions
  • Providing tax advice on closed-ended property funds
  • Tax audits
  • Providing advice on cross-border circumstances (international tax law)
  • Expert fiscal opinions and statements

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Private assets

Private assets

Anyone who has created assets in the course of his or her working life wants to retain them for himself or herself and for his or her family.

In that respect, we help you to make optimum use of all the leeway in regard to the latter afforded to you by tax law. Besides preparing the tax return, we also advise you in all fiscal dispute proceedings conducted before fiscal courts. Also in matters concerning endowment and inheritance tax law, when designing your will from a fiscal perspective, and when setting up foundations and in regard to corporate succession, we can provide you with the right support.

This means that you generate sufficient return on your capital and retain your assets across generations.

Non-profit-making companies

Non-profit-making companies

Non-profit-making companies are usually subject to special general conditions: The most efficient utilisation of the available funds possible, simultaneously deploying the leanest cost framework possible. The successful business management of such a company requires comprehensive fiscal and business know-how.

We are familiar with the complex framework of associations and foundations, ranging from culture to sports, and provide you with competent support – already beginning at the stage of providing advice on establishing the organisation.