Kathrin Feil

Partner, Head of Indirect Tax Services

KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

Kathrin Feil has over 25 years of professional experience in VAT consulting for medium-sized companies and large international groups. She is responsible for knowledge management in the Indirect Tax service line, publishes KPMG's monthly VAT newsletter and VAT articles in trade journals, regularly organises webcasts and speaks at seminars and conferences (Cologne VAT Days). Kathrin Feil is head of the Consumer Goods & Retail subgroup of the global Indirect Tax service line and accordingly has VAT industry expertise in the consumer goods and retail sectors.

Her work focuses on providing support in complex VAT issues in the form of expert opinions as well as advice in the context of tax audits, special VAT audits, out-of-court and judicial appeal proceedings and VAT declarations, including outsourcing. Finally, Kathrin Feil's expertise also includes turnover tax projects such as the establishment of tax compliance management systems in the area of turnover tax, mass data analyses, the optimisation of supply chains and the preparation of turnover tax manuals.

  • Divestiture tax implications
  • Tax solutions
  • Tax strategies
  • Graduate in business administration, appointed tax consultant (2002)

  • Head of the International Retail Group of the Indirect Tax Service Line

  • VAT representative in the Media Network Southern Region

  • Germany-wide Head of Knowledge Management & Innovation of the Service Line Indirect Tax of KPMG Germany

  • Author in Beck's online turnover tax commentary Weymüller

  • Publication of articles in relevant journals e.g. "Vorsteuerabzug bei Holdinggesellschaften - Quo vadis?" Feil, Roscher, BB 2007, 1079

  • "Current developments in the VAT treatment of vouchers" Feil, Kupke, Greisl, BB 2012, 3113

  • "Separation of charges in the case of a flat total sales price" Handelsblatt, 03.12.2013