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Country Tax & Legal Leader: Thomas Welz
Head of Transfer Pricing: Richard Schmidtke
Quick facts
Number of partners

120

Number of advisors

around 430

Network memberships

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited ("DTTL")

Key practice areas
General corporate tax
Indirect tax
Private client
Tax
Tax controversy
Transactional tax
Transfer pricing
Firm overview
With currently 1,772 tax technical professionals, including 120 tax partners and around 400 certified German tax advisers (“Steuerberater”), Deloitte Germany’s tax practice is one of the largest in Germany. Clients include German-based companies of all sizes, as well as a large number of multinationals based in Germany and worldwide. Deloitte Germany’s clients include a significant number of German DAX 40 index members and many Fortune 500 companies.

Deloitte Germany is a part of the global network of Deloitte member firms. The Deloitte business model, with its vast network, enables clients to choose the appropriate level of support. With Deloitte Germany and the Deloitte network of member firms, clients can benefit from global reach while retaining access to local tax knowledge.

Deloitte Germany’s service offerings combine interdisciplinary and globally aligned knowledge with industry experience and digital capabilities. Deloitte Germany is offering technology and process-oriented solutions to handle these technological and legal changes, e.g., for indirect tax, transfer pricing, and tax compliance. Furthermore, Deloitte Germany’s offerings include crossover and multidisciplinary approaches, i.e., close collaborations with consulting and valuation specialists, broad service offerings tailored to client-specific requirements, and answers to complex questions.

Deloitte Germany’s transfer pricing service line is working in a globally aligned industry program to develop and bundle international industry experience. This program was developed and is managed by Deloitte Germany. Also, Deloitte Germany’s transfer pricing practice is connected with Deloitte Germany Consulting, financial advisory, and legal to offer a full range portfolio to clients, avoid “one fits all” approaches, and create a Unique Selling Point.
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Key Tax practice areas

Compliance Management:

  • Business Model Optimization
  • Economic Modelling
  • Policy Design
  • IP Management
  • Technology services

Corporate Tax Matters:

  • Cross-border Project Management
  • Restructuring
  • Cost-sharing Arrangements
  • APAs
  • Transactions
  • M&A
  • Environmental
  • Financial Services
  • Corporate Taxes
  • Technology
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Value chains

Dispute Resolution:

  • Audit Defence
  • Audit Support
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Pre-litigation
  • Litigation
  • Controversy Management

Tax Advisory:

  • Tax Consulting
  • International Tax Advisory

Indirect Tax:

  • VAT
  • GST
  • Customs
  • Supply chains

Transfer pricing:

  • International Tax Planning,
  • Economic Modelling
  • Cross-Border Project Management
  • TP Policy Design
  • Business Restructuring
  • Business Model Optimisation
  • Audit Defence
  • Audit Support
  • TP Risk Managemen
  • IP Management
  • Cost-Sharing Arrangements
  • Competition / Anti-Trust Cases
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Litigation
  • Arbitration
  • Controversy Management
Tax sector expertise
  • Aviation
  • Banking
  • Construction and Materials
  • Consumer Goods and Services
  • Energy
  • Financial Services
  • Food and Beverage
  • Government and Public Policy
  • Healthcare
  • Industrials
  • Insurance
  • Investment Management
  • Media
  • Mining
  • Natural resources
  • Oil and Gas
  • Pharma and Life Sciences
  • Real Estate
  • Shipping
  • Social Infrastructure
  • Tech and Telecoms
  • Tourism
  • Transport
  • Utilities
Key contacts

Managing partner 

Stefan Grube

sgrube@deloitte.de

Address:
Erna-Scheffler-Straße 2
40476 Düsseldorf
Germany
Web Address:https://www2.deloitte.com/de/de/services/tax.html

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Overview

Deloitte Germany’s Tax & Legal practice is one of the largest in the country, with 1,772 professionals, including 100 tax partners and over 400 certified German tax advisers. It serves a wide range of clients, including DAX 40 and Fortune 500 companies. Key service areas include international tax, tax technology, private company services, R&D incentives, M&A, transfer pricing, indirect tax (VAT and customs), global employer services, and financial services tax. 

During the research period, the firm supported a high-profile, multi-country transaction for a major German tech firm, advising on complex tax structuring and Day One Readiness, including real estate-related tax risks and mitigation strategies. In addition, the team assisted advised a major client on a strategic, multi-jurisdictional corporate reorganization from a legal entity to a branch structure over three years, covering corporate tax, VAT, transfer pricing, accounting, valuation, and legal/employment law aspects. 

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Deloitte’s German tax practice currently includes 80 tax partners and more than 400 certified German tax advisers, making it one of the largest tax departments in Germany. In addition, the firm is active in domestic corporate tax, indirect taxation, tax disputes and transfer pricing.

The group recently advised Advent on tax guidance during a public voluntary takeover offer, including tax due diligence and tax structuring assistance. The team also worked with Blackstone Real Estate Partners and Blackstone's Core+ strategy to recapitalise Mileway, a pan-European last mile logistics company.

Several new partners joined the business during the research period, including Susanne Hemme, Daniel Kai Fischer, Oliver Gunkel, Tillmann Pyszka and Wolfram Kubot. Timo Hillebrand also joined the team in 2023.

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