The Supreme Tax Court held that a merger with retrospective tax effect does not lead to a merger profit for a former and meanwhile deceased shareholder of a limited company even if the shares were acquired gratuitously after the effective (retroactive) tax transfer date.
If a corporation is merged into its parent company, which in turn is a controlled company within a corporation tax group (fiscal unity/“Organschaft”) with a corporation as the controlling company (“Organträger”), the Supreme Tax Court has ruled that no flat-rate deemed business expenses are to be added back to profits under Section 8b (3) sentence 1 of the German Corporation Tax Act (CTA) either at the level of the parent company or at the level of the controlled company, where the said non-deductible flat-rate deemed business expenses are derived from a merger gain.
