Tax

Providing comprehensive advice on national and international tax issues is one of CMS's core competencies. Our excellently networked tax team combines broad expertise with specialisations and many years of experience in advising companies, groups, family businesses and family offices, financial institutions, private individuals, non-profit organisations (NPOs) and the public sector at numerous locations throughout Germany and internationally. 

Our team supports you in all tax areas, including transfer pricing issues and specialised tax matters. In addition, we support our clients in tax disputes not only in the run-up to a legal dispute, but also represent them before the fiscal courts. 

Focal points

Our areas of specialisation include in particular

• Corporate and group tax law
• Tax support for M&A and PMI projects
• Advice on external audits and tax disputes (in and out of court)
• Tax compliance (prevention, defence advice and defence)
• Real estate tax law
• Investment tax law (fund structuring and fund investments)
• Taxation of the digital economy (crypto and blockchain)
• Indirect taxes (VAT, insurance tax, energy and excise duties) and customs duties
• Tax advice in insolvency and crisis situations
• Succession taxation and HNWIs

Future-facing - forward-looking and sustainable tax advice

The complexity of the national and global tax landscape is constantly and rapidly increasing. This presents companies, entrepreneurs and private individuals with ever new challenges. We keep an eye on all tax law developments for you and support you in reacting to them in good time with forward-looking and sustainable solutions. 

Our expertise is not limited to the legal aspects. We understand the economic environment in which our clients operate and translate our customised advice into efficient and pragmatic solutions. 

Interdisciplinary and international - customised solutions from a single source 

Almost every legal and life situation is associated with tax law issues. Our experienced teams have a trained eye for the interrelationships and work closely with all other practice areas and legal fields at CMS. 

Depending on the individual requirements of your project, we regularly work with other CMS legal disciplines, such as labour law, corporate M&A, private clients, real estate & public or restructuring and insolvency, or call in the relevant CMS experts for you. 

We also advise and coordinate international issues and cross-border mandates for you in international teams, depending on the requirements of the individual case. 

With over 500 CMS tax experts in more than 40 jurisdictions, we ensure that your interests are represented worldwide and realised from a single source.