§ 12 para 4 was repealed in 2021. At the same time, the following changes were introduced:

§ 34 para 3c KStG
§ 8 para 1 in the version of Article 3 of the Act of June 25, 2021 (Federal Law Gazette I p. 2056) is also to be applied to assessment periods before 2021

§ 34 para 6d KStG
§ 12 para 4 in the version applicable on June 30, 2021, is to be applied for the last time for the assessment period 2020.

§ 8 para 1 sentence 4 KStG
For corporations as defined in § 1 para 1 with headquarters abroad, whose place of management is located domestically and which are not to be treated as legal persons under domestic corporate law due to lack of legal capacity, services and promises of services between the corporation and persons who earn income as defined in § 20 para 1 number 1 and 9 of the Income Tax Act from this corporation, are to be treated for the purposes of implementing taxation with income taxes like services and promises of services between a legal corporation and its shareholders.

If you, as an entrepreneur of a Limited company, have received a notice from the professional association in which you are personally assessed because the legal capacity of the Limited has allegedly been lost, we recommend filing an objection. You can download a possible non-binding template of such an objection here...

In the previous post, we reported on the information letters from the tax offices regarding the Federal Ministry of Finance's letter dated December 30, 2020.

These letters are currently being supplemented by letters informing the LTD shareholder personally of a VAT number, or announcing the allocation of VAT numbers. Usually, these letters refer to the Federal Ministry of Finance's letter dated December 30, 2020, and additionally note that the LTD will continue to be treated as a subject of corporate tax due to the Brexit Tax Accompanying Act.

As a result, the tax offices assume that taxes for LTDs will be declared using two tax numbers in the future. The existing tax number of the LTD will continue to be used for the corporate tax declaration. A VAT number assigned personally to the entrepreneur will be used for VAT declarations.

These letters typically do not come with legal remedy instructions but are likely to have regulatory content and thus represent an administrative act against which legal remedies are permissible.

You can download a non-binding sample of a corresponding objection further below. Before possibly initiating legal action, you should ...  

Currently, tax offices are sending out informational letters, referring to the BMF letter dated December 30, 2020. In these letters, the tax offices inform that, according to the BMF letter dated December 30, 2020, a Limited company will no longer be treated as a corporation starting from January 1, 2021.

We have already provided our legal assessment on this matter in several posts.

If these are purely informational letters from the tax office, we suggest the following non-binding letter, although you should also coordinate the approach with your tax advisor beforehand. If needed, you can also download the letter in Word format. Alternatively, we are of course also available for individual legal advice. However, always pay special attention to whether the letters to you or the LTD contain binding statements with specific regulations and/or a legal remedy instruction. In such cases, it is necessary to examine separately whether legal remedies...