Tax consultant for GmbHs (limited liability companies): 1.5% instead of high tax payments

Steuerberater Thomas Breit
SZ-Siegel Innovative Unternehmen 2025

How can you benefit from our tax consultancy services for GmbHs?

Legally watertight solutions

Thanks to our expertise in complex tax matters we can devise individual solutions for your GmbH. We draw on extensive experience in legal fields such as tax law, corporate law, trade law, inheritance law, family law and law of obligations. Our concepts are legally sound, sustainable and tailored to fit your individual situation

Close cooperation with external experts

When providing tax consultancy services to GmbHs we work very closely with a network of external experts. In addition to our own expertise, we have longstanding partnerships with specialized lawyers, notaries and other experts in various fields.

More than 20 years of experience

Our wealth of experience enables us to design innovative solutions for optimally structuring your GmbH in terms of tax and succession planning. We do not content ourselves with standard solutions but use all the opportunities that German and European tax law have to offer.

Our services as tax consultants for GmbHs (German limited liability companies)

Lower tax rates on income (1.5% in the short term and 14% in the long term)

We can develop a strategy to reduce the taxes on your GmbH profits to 1.5% and less for a period of up to 7 years and 14% thereafter.

Reducing taxes on profit distribution

We can develop a concept according to which the profit distribution of your GmbH is taxed at a reduced rate of 1.5% rather than your usual income tax rate (maximum tax rates of 46% or 48% are usual!).

Tax rate of 1.5% on sale of GmbH shares thanks to favorable tax structuring

We can offer you a tax-optimized solution allowing you to enjoy a tax rate of just 1.5% when selling GmbH shares.

We do not offer the following services

Routine tax consultancy services without a specific project

We are specialized in working on specific projects and do not offer any routine tax consultancy services in financial or payroll accounting. In certain cases, however, we can prepare your annual financial statements in the scope of a certain project and prepare the corresponding tax returns.

Providing tax consultancy services to GmbHs with profit of less than EUR 500,000

We concentrate primarily on GmbHs with complex tax issues and a need for strategic action and do not provide support for GmbHs with profit of less than EUR 500,000.

Providing answers to individual unrelated questions

Our approach focuses on providing advice and structuring solutions for GmbHs with complex tax issues and a need for strategic action and does not cover providing answers to particular individual questions outside of a larger project.

Tax consultant for GmbHs (limited liability companies): Case study

Situation at the outset

The managing director of a GmbH, Mr. H., plans to resign from the business and to hire a new managing director. Since the company uses several privately owned properties, these are automatically included in the business assets. Mr. H. is now facing the challenge of withdrawing from the business as the managing director without causing tax implications through the sale of the properties. Further, he would like to provide for his partner whom he is not married to.

How did we solve the issue?

In order to solve this problem, the properties were transferred to a family holding company that is structured as a GmbH & Co. KG, a German limited partnership with a limited liability company as the sole general partner. The existing GmbH was set up as a subsidiary of the family holding company, and Mr. A. became the managing director of the non-operating parent company. Thus, it was possible to hire a new managing director for the operating subsidiary without triggering the adverse tax consequences of a real estate sale. This corporate structure ensured that the properties are still closely connected to the company and are owned by the family company. The properties were contributed to the family holding company on the basis of their carrying amounts from the 1940ies in order to avoid taxable gains. Furthermore, the properties were contributed to the GmbH & Co. KG by transferring them without consideration, thus avoiding taxable profit for the company.

What advantages does this have?

Erfolgsbeispiel: Steuerberater GmbH - Infografik

Common questions regarding Thomas Breit Tax Services

My consulting services are billed by the hour (Thomas Breit: EUR 580 net/hour, employee: EUR 380 net/hour). The analysis and your objectives will determine which concept is the best fit for your needs. The total cost of implementing this chosen concept will depend on the actual amount of time needed for the implementation. An advance of EUR 20,000 plus statutory VAT is payable when the order is placed (equivalent to the minimum fee). This advance is enough to finance the smallest project. A cost-benefit analysis always comes before concept and implementation.

My fees are generally financed by the tax savings you achieve. The return on investment is between six months and no more than two years.

Additional costs may be incurred for court fees, notary costs and an expert for corporate law, depending on the project.

We can of course work together with your usual partners. Should you need experts, we have a good network of corporate law experts and notaries.

No, we only work on a project basis. We do not offer any financial or payroll accounting as we are highly specialized. In some cases, however, it makes sense for us to prepare your annual financial statements incl. tax returns for the years around the restructuring. We will then return these tasks to your tax consultant and draw attention to the particulars.

No, never. 3,500 cases in 23 years – no slip ups.

Developing a concept can take between three and eighteen months, depending on the project. In rare cases, it may take as many as three years to implement a concept.

Yes and no. We are basically able to answer any questions concerning tax law. However, many of these questions can be answered just as well by other tax consultants with lower hourly rates, which is why we recommend you retain your usual tax consultant for such questions.

My expertise covers every legal aspect of civil law, such as private law, company law, commercial law, international tax law, inheritance law and much more. In a way, you can compare it to a general practitioner who knows about the heart but is not able to perform heart surgery. I am the cardiologist among tax consultants and my specialty lies in providing comprehensive advice that goes beyond tax law itself.

How you benefit from working with Thomas Breit Tax Services

With Thomas Breit Tax Consulting, you receive legally binding tax office information, interdisciplinary expertise from 23 years of experience, and customized, future-proof tax concepts—legally compliant and based on German and European legal forms.

Legally binding statements by the tax authorities form the basis of decision-making

Our tax consultancy office can obtain a legally binding statement from the tax authorities on your behalf. With our help you can rest assured that your tax affairs are handled in compliance with the applicable legal provisions.

Experience and expertise

23 years of experience, including 17 years as a certified tax consultant and more than 3,500 successful cases, give me the expertise to optimally structure your individual tax situation and advise you on your succession planning.

Comprehensive advice

By combining several legal fields like tax law, corporate law, trade law, inheritance law, family law, law of obligations and many more I draw up customized concepts that are legally sound and tailored to exactly fit your personal needs.

Focus on German and European legal corporate structures

I work exclusively with German and European legal entities that are subject to taxation in Germany in order to ensure that we can optimally use the tax advantages and opportunities that these legal structures offer.

Flexible and future-proof

My models are highly flexible and can be easily adapted to accommodate any changes that might occur in the future. They are infallible and guarantee that your tax and legal matters are safe and in order for years to come.

What clients say about us

Our clients value our exceptional expertise and tailor-made solutions. See for yourself how successful entrepreneurs have benefited from our tax consulting services.

Sönke Pickenpack

I have been working with Mr. Thomas Breit for years out of conviction.

Mr. Breit has far-reaching knowledge of tax laws, so that I always feel that I am in the best hands. He always answers any questions I have in connection with taxes. His office is extremely well organized and quite innovative. Full marks!

Christian Behrens

There are very few tax firms that are so outstanding and so impressive.

In my opinion, it is impossible to find anyone who can match the quality, passion and energy of Thomas and his team – not even close. Thomas has a rare and indescribable gift and we are overjoyed to have found him.

Stephan Witte
Managing director, Savitor GmbH

As the managing director of Savitor GmbH, I spent a long time looking for a solution to the challenges we were facing and came to Thomas Breit via referral.

From day one, Mr. Breit left a competent & binding impression and was quick to approach the task professionally. The result is exactly the solution we wanted – thank you very much!

Peter Maurer

Mr. Breit attaches great importance to finding the optimal structure that is easy to implement on a daily basis, so that he really does stand out from the crowd of “tax administrators”. His proposals are highly sophisticated and thought through to the last little detail.

He succeeds in realizing concepts that last for years because he thinks out of the box. We clearly recommend Thomas Breit as a tax consultant.

Jörg Holst
Owner, Bäckerei Jörn Holste GmbH

Thomas Breit and his tax office really helped our company – Bäckerei Jörn Holste GmbH – in a difficult time of upheaval.

The greatest benefit for us was that we dealt with issues that needed to be solved and subsequently implemented the required changes. We have created a basis with which we can enter the digital age. Definite recommendation.

You are seeking advice? I look forwards to hearing from you.

A few words before we start

Filling out this contact form is not legally binding in any way. When you send us this completed form we will send you a short initial questionnaire as a pdf in which you describe your concerns and current situation. In addition, you will receive information on how we work as well as a sample remuneration agreement.

Net hourly rates
Thomas Breit €750 per hour
Assigned tax advisor accourding § 58 StBerG €650 per hour
Team member €550 per hour

We are a tax consultancy office specializing in tax structuring and succession planning. We can provide you with comprehensive and interdisciplinary support and advice in these matters. Please visit our YouTube channel: Thomas Breit Tax Services

We do not offer routine accountancy and payroll services. However, if you would like us to work with you, we can refer you to our network of long-standing, highly qualified and fully digital partners.

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