Tax & Legal

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1. 11.06.2024

   No application of loss forfeiture rules for losses allocated ...

   The loss forfeiture rules of Section 8c of the Corporation Tax Act in the version valid for 2014 are not applicable to deductible losses which are allocated to a corporation as partner of a limited partnership pursuant to Section 15a Income Tax Act. With this decision, the Supreme Tax Court contradicts the view of the tax administration.

   Categories: Supreme Tax Court cases

   Keywords: partnership income, Loss relief
2. 13.09.2022

   No retroactive change of legal form effective for tax purpos ...

   In its ruling of 21 February 2022 (I R 13/19), the Supreme Tax Court rejected the tax office's appeal against the ruling of the Lower Saxony Tax and ruled that the (retroactive) change of legal form of a partnership into a corporation under Section 25 Sentence 1 in conjunction with Section§ Section 20 (1) Reorganisations Tax Act is prohibited for tax purposes if, at the time of the resolution to convert, the partnership changing its legal form no longer engages in a commercial activity

   Categories: Supreme Tax Court cases

   Keywords: partnership income, Reorganisation Tax A ...
3. 01.08.2019

   Restrictions to the “tainting effect” of trading partnership ...

   For income tax purposes, income of a partnership from leasing and letting or from capital assets is to be reclassified as trading income where the partnership also receives a negligible amount of income from a participation in a trading partnership; however, such “tainted” income is not subject to trade tax.

   Categories: Supreme Tax Court cases

   Keywords: partnership income, trade tax, tainted i ...
4. 27.04.2016

   LLP partners to be taxed where they practise

   The Supreme Tax Court has held that the German partners in a US LLP law firm should tax their partnership earnings in the country where they carried out their practice.

   Categories: Supreme Tax Court cases

   Keywords: partnership income, LLP, law firm
5. 05.01.2011

   No requalification of royalty income of US partner to busine ...

   The Supreme Tax Court has held that the treaty attribution of the royalty income charged by a US partner is to his US business. Accordingly, it is not taxable in Germany as partnership profits.

   Categories: Supreme Tax Court cases

   Keywords: treaty override, Royalty income, requali ...