Deloitte Germany
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60486 Frankfurt
Germany
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Email: bmertgen@deloitte.de
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Bettina Mertgen, Deloitte Germany, is a director in
the indirect tax service line – customs and
global trade (CGT) and partner at the associated
international law firm Deloitte Legal. She is
specialised in customs, excise duty, and foreign trade
law and export control with more than 10 years of
professional experience as an attorney at law, tax
lawyer, certified tax adviser, and certified adviser
for customs and excise duty. Bettina is one of the
leading specialists in indirect taxation in Germany.
She leads the legal unit within the CGT team and is
head of the CGT group in Deloitte's Frankfurt office.
She has extensive experience in advising clients with
regard to opposition and administrative fines
proceedings, tax litigation, customs audits and
compliance reviews.
After her graduation in law from
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in
2002, Bettina completed her legal clerkship in
Frankfurt and New York with a focus on tax law. In
2006, she gained admission to the German Bar. Before
joining Deloitte in 2015, she worked for more than
eight years for an international law firm in Frankfurt
and Washington DC and became a specialist in her area
of law. High-level advisory with respect to complex and
difficult matters in this area of law became her
strengths. She successfully took part in legal
proceedings to the Federal Fiscal Court
(Bundesfinanzhof) concerning excise duty.
Bettina co-authored the book Compliance im
Außenwirtschaftsrecht covering compliance in
customs and foreign trade law. It was tailored to fit
the practical needs of companies and provide its
decision-makers with guidance on export control and
customs compliance. Moreover, she publishes articles in
professional journals on a regular basis covering all
relevant aspects of customs, excise duty and foreign
trade law. Most recently, she covered the possible
consequences of Brexit (the UK leaving the EU) on
indirect taxation as well as the interaction between
transfer pricing and customs valuation.
Besides her work and her publications, Bettina is
also a speaker at seminars on a regular basis.
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