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Operational excellence and restructuring
Advisory for businesses, whatever situation they’re in
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Deal Advisory
We’ll advise you on national and international transactions
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Valuation & economic and dispute advisory
We’ll value your business fairly and realistically
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Tax for businesses
Because your business – national or international – deserves better tax advice.
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Business Process Solutions
Measuring and utilising company data
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Tax for financial institutions
Financial services tax – for banks, asset managers and insurance companies
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Tax in the public sector
Advisory and services for the public sector and non-profit organisations
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Employment law
Representation for businesses
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Commercial & distribution
Making purchasing and distribution legally water-tight.
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Inheritance and succession
Don’t leave the future to chance.
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Financial Services | Legal
Your Growth, Our Commitment.
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Business legal
Doing business successfully by optimally structuring companies
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Real estate law
We cover everything on the real estate sector, the hotel industry, and the law governing construction and architects, condominium ownership, and letting and renting.
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IT, IP and data protection
IT security and digital innovations
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Litigation
Designing solutions – we’re your partner for successfully resolving disputes
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Mergers & acquisitions (M&A)
Your one-stop service provider focusing on M&A transactions
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Restructuring & insolvency
Securing the future in the crisis.
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Sustainability strategy
Laying the cornerstone for sustainability.
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Sustainability management
Managing the change to sustainability.
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Legal aspects of sustainability
Legal aspects of sustainability
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Sustainability reporting
Communicating sustainability performance and ensuring compliance.
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Sustainable finance
Integrating sustainability into investment decisions.
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Grant Thornton B2B ESG-Study
Grant Thornton B2B ESG-Study
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International business
Our country expertise
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Entering the German market
Your reliable partners.
What Dutch companies need to know about tax and the legal situation in Germany
Among many international trading relationships, Germany is by far the Netherlands’ most important trading partner. Inland shipping and the Schengen Agreement have over time brought the countries bordering the Netherlands ever closer together. Nevertheless, Dutch companies doing business in Germany can still expect traps in tax and legal matters.
Key points in brief
- The fundamentals of the tax and legal systems in Germany and the Netherlands are extremely different.
- In Germany, subsidies and conditions are available to companies that can assist in founding or carrying out transactions with Dutch companies. We have all the up-to-date information and will assist you in making all the applications.
- Compliance, environmental and data protection policies have to be observed. With us you can be legally watertight.
- Particular rules apply in Germany to employee contracts, working hours, health and safety, and working conditions.
Connectedness with cultural differences
As close as the two EU countries are to one another and as much as they are bound together by common regulations – there are basic differences in the tax and legal systems between the two countries. That is why it is still necessary to know and abide by the different legal and cultural conditions in the two countries so that unexpected surprises don’t impinge on doing business successfully. That’s what we will assist you with.
We’re there when you need us and provide advisory in the following areas:
- Compliance with regulatory accounting, tax and legal requirements
- For outsourcing services: Accounting, payroll, tax, social insurance
- For audits of financial statements, compliance and measurement issues
- All the tax issues of Dutch companies, their shareholders and expats
- Global transfer pricing services: structuring, hedging (APAs) and documentation of transfer prices and
- Declaring your VAT and
- worldwide with our international Grant Thornton network.
- Get in touch, without any commitment.
Get in touch, without any commitment.
Are you a Dutch company looking to do business in Germany? Are you looking for advice from understanding, native speakers to allow you to enter the German market as well as possible? Our contact Michael B. Schröder gives Dutch companies the best start into the German market. Take advantage of his expertise and feel free to contact him with your questions, without any commitment.
Our awards
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