For Tax Report 2025 readers
Benefit from 1.5% tax or less and take control of your succession planning
Do you know how much tax you overpay each year? Or what the real tax burden looks like when passing on a business or selling property? The good news: With the right structure, you can save substantial amounts – legally sound, without questionable schemes, and beyond standardized and poorly optimized solutions.
Without a clear tax strategy and succession plan, you could face the following risks:
- Tax payments amounting to hundreds of thousands or even millions of euros
- The wrong person inherits your business
- Your business becomes fragmented
- Your partner, children and others are left without legal safeguards
Would you like to benefit from structured tax planning and a well-defined succession strategy?
In most cases, we succeed in achieving substantial results through well-thought-out tax and succession planning, thereby
- preventing tax disasters
- at the same time protecting your assets and business legacy from significant financial damage
- and even preserving it for your partner or children in the best possible way after your death.
All of this is achieved without relying on dubious offshore tax havens. Using German law, we can help reduce your tax burden to 1.5% or even less in some cases. With our deep expertise in tax and succession planning, we provide tailor-made strategies designed specifically for your individual situation.
Standard solutions lack the necessary optimization expertise – and often result in excessive taxes, family disputes, and fragmentation of your business.
Many businesses rely solely on their tax advisor and their will when it comes to tax planning and succession, overlooking the crucial role of corporate law. With such standard solutions, you could be giving away tens or even hundreds of thousands of euros – and risk leaving your successors facing a heavy tax bill in the event of your death.
Avoid this mistake – and reduce your taxes.
Unawareness.
Many entrepreneurs stick to the same old formula: They turn to a lawyer and are handed a standard solution like a holding company or a basic will. Yet there are more than 30 legal forms available under corporate law – each offering more targeted ways to structure tax, succession and inheritance planning.
Tax law expertise.
A successful tax and succession strategy requires more than just standard solutions. To avoid tax pitfalls, businesses need an expert with specialized knowledge in tax law – someone who also has a solid grounding in civil law. Not the other way around.
Trust in the expertise of Thomas Breit Tax Services
Tax advisor Thomas Breit and his team of qualified professionals will help you develop the best strategy for successful tax and succession planning – and avoid the kind of tax exposure that often arises when a business is sold or transferred to third parties.
Thomas Breit is the founder of Thomas Breit Tax Services and he works as a tax advisor and business consultant in Hamburg.
Since qualifying as a tax consultant in 2006, he has built up a team of 15 professionals in business and tax matters and served more than 3,500 clients in Germany and abroad.
His expertise in tax structuring and succession planning has helped many clients save hundreds of thousands – even millions – of euros in taxes.
What can you expect when working with us?
- Duration: depends on how quickly we receive your documents
Start
- Completed questionnaire
- Initial meeting with Thomas Breit
- Contracts signed
- Prepayment net EUR 20,000 (paid)
- Cloud set up
- All documents uploaded in full
- Duration: 14 days
Preparation
- Analysis of the situation at the outset
- Summary review
- Determine: “The path to the goal”
- Fee plan
- Project plan
- Duration: 3-5 years (occasionally 7 years)
Implementation
Individual measures (as a non-binding example):
- Tax structuring concept
- Company and commercial law concept
- Annual financial statements
- Tax balance sheet
- Closing tax balance sheet
- Company valuation
- Contract template (draft)
- Obtain binding statement from the tax office
- Opening balance sheet(s) (civil law)
- Opening balance sheet(s) (tax law)
- Notarial deeds (draft)
- Present draft contracts to lawyers
- Implementation
The activities mentioned above may not be the activities for your project. These are determined by your project plan.
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.
Common questions regarding Thomas Breit Tax Services
What does the consultation cost?
My consulting services are billed by the hour (Thomas Breit: EUR 750 net/hour, employed tax advisors/lawyers: EUR 650 net/hour, employees: EUR 550 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 payment of EUR 20,000 plus statutory VAT is due when the order is placed (equivalent to the minimum fee). The conceptualization and implementation are always preceded by a cost-benefit analysis.
My fees are generally offset 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.
Can I work together with my own lawyer/notary?
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.
Do I have to transfer my entire mandate to Thomas Breit Tax Services?
No, only in part and not permanently. What does that mean specifically? Due to our high degree of specialization, we do not offer financial and payroll accounting services. These remain with your usual accounting firm throughout the entire project.
However, we take care of the annual financial statements relating to the restructuring of your company. This reduces legal risks for you and allows our work results to be processed in the annual financial statements. We also handle correspondence with the tax office for all assessment issues and questions relating to the restructuring.
Once the project is complete, we hand the annual financial statements back to your usual firm and point out any special features.
Has there ever been a case of poor advice being given?
No, never. 3,500 cases in 25 years – no slip ups.
How long does it take to develop a concept?
Developing a concept takes between three and five years, depending on the project. In rare cases, it may take as many as seven years to implement a concept. However, the tax benefit takes effect from the very first year of our collaboration.
Will you answer other tax-related questions for me?
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.
Why can’t other tax consultants do what you do?
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 advisors and consultants, and my specialty lies in providing comprehensive advice that goes beyond tax law itself.
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.