Helpful tax knowledge for many areas of life: Our regular tax tips provide you with quick and understandable information on practical topics from German tax law. Our experts answer questions and explain relevant court rulings in connection with tax issues.
Bitcoins, inheritances, share losses - what do they mean for your tax return?
In our tax tips, for example, you can find out how it affects your tax return if the company car stays in the garage, how the family home can be bequeathed tax-free to your children and why investors in gold certificates can be pleased.
Additional tax tips:
- Works of art can be an asset with tax advantages. Our expert Kay Klöpping explains how you can use art as a valuable asset.
- Property owners learn in the tax tip of Jürgen Lindauer how to avoid unnecessary tax burdens when selling a house in the event of divorce.
- Foreign currency credit as tax risk: In his article, Michael Christeleit explains when price gains can lead to tax issues
Beate Giersbach
Senior Manager, Tax
KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
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The current KPMG tax tip
Der KPMG Steuertipp
Older KPMG Tax Tips (in German only)
- Art as an investment - Take advantage of taxation of works of art
- Selling a house in the event of divorce - How to avoid tax burdens.
- Foreign currency balances as tax risk - These obligations apply to transactions in foreign currency.
- Bitcoin tax-free - profits are taxable. This could change as the result of a judgment.
- Caution with default interest - Even interest payments provided for by law may be subject to income tax.
- Pay Less at the Gym - Judgment clarifies how business entities save taxes on in-kind benefits.
- Fund gains tax-exempt - When old fund units are sold, the increase in value is not credited in full
- Correctly deduct losses - Federal Fiscal Court rules on negative income from capital assets
- Caution, negative interest rates: Interest gains are taxable – unfortunately, penalty interest is not deductible
- The Inherited Property - How are inheritance liabilities treated for tax purposes?
- Das geerbte Grundstück - Wie werden Nachlassverbindlichkeiten steuerlich behandelt?
