Data compiled by the Tax Foundation (as of 2024) reveals that the approach to inheritance and gift tax varies considerably ...

Bryan Cave’s Tax law expert Stefan Skulesch: “Last minute solution with flaws will continue to impede company successions in Germany” On 14 October 2016 the Bundesrat (the upper house of the ...

Germany does have inheritance tax, but how much you have to pay depends on your relationship to the person who passed – and how much they left you.

The Global Property Guide looks at inheritance from two angles: taxation, and what inheritance laws apply to foreigners leaving property in Germany: what restrictions there are and whether making a ...

With some of the highest property prices in Germany, Bavarian premier Markus Söder is arguing that a blanket inheritance tax isn’t fair, because €400,000 goes a lot further in Saxony-Anhalt ...

Germany will toughen business-friendly rules that have allowed heirs to corporate fortunes to avoid inheritance taxes in the past decades and helped shape a dense web of midsize businesses ...

Family-owned firms constitute some 92% of German companies, employ 60% of workers and account for half of output. This is due in no small part to the generous tax treatment those companies have ...

A handful of Germans only paid around 5% tax on inheritance or gifts totalling €31 billion last year, a newspaper report has revealed. Critics say Germany is a "tax haven for multimillionaires." ...

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The parties in Germany’s coalition government have reached an agreement on inheritance tax, resolving a ...