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Service · Tax & Compliance
Annual accounts that lower your tax.
Your financial statements are more than a duty owed to the tax office. With deliberate balance-sheet policy – accounting options, provisions, depreciation – we steer your result legally in the right direction: less tax where possible, stronger equity where the bank is looking.
Compliant E-Bilanz filing (§5b EStG)- Commercial & tax law from one team
- Prepared for banks & rating
Sound familiar?
The accounts arrive late – and no one explains the numbers.
This is what we keep hearing from business owners and GmbH directors:
The numbers only arrive months later.
The accounts are ready long after the financial year has ended. By then it is too late to steer anything – you only learn what already happened.
The tax balance sheet is just a copy of the commercial one.
Tax elections go unused, recognition and valuation options sit idle. You pay more tax than the law actually requires.
The bank wants the accounts for its rating – and your equity ratio looks weak.
A result kept small for tax reasons costs you creditworthiness in the rating, and with it, interest. No one was watching both at once.
Provisions and depreciation are set by gut feel.
Without a concept, every position is open to challenge – especially in a tax audit (Betriebsprüfung). At the same time, legal room to manoeuvre stays unused.
Disclosure is running late again – or forgotten.
Corporations must publish their accounts in the company register (Unternehmensregister). Miss the deadline and you risk an administrative fine from €2,500 (§335 HGB).
The accounts are a black box.
You sign off numbers no one has explained to you. The most important steering tool of the year is reduced to a mere formality.
What we take off your plate
From trial balance to finished statements.
Concretely, we deliver for your annual accounts:
Commercial and tax balance sheets
We prepare both cleanly separated and derive the tax adjustments via the authoritative-principle link (Maßgeblichkeit, §5 EStG) – including notes and, where required, the management report.
Cash-basis or accrual – the right method
We clarify whether the cash-basis statement (EÜR, §4(3) EStG) is enough or a balance sheet is mandatory (always for a GmbH, otherwise above €800,000 turnover or €80,000 profit, §141 AO) – and guide the switch.
E-Bilanz filing with the tax office
We transmit your balance sheet electronically under §5b EStG in the prescribed taxonomy format – on time and without follow-up queries from the tax office.
Balance-sheet policy with a system
We use elections deliberately: provisions, depreciation (declining-balance, low-value assets, the investment deduction under §7g EStG), recognition and valuation options – aligned to your tax and rating goals.
Disclosure in the company register
We assign you to the correct size class (§267 HGB) and file the appropriate scope on time – micro-entities by deposit only. No administrative fines.
Bank- and rating-ready presentation
We prepare the accounts so your key figures – equity ratio, result, liquidity – hold up in the bank meeting, and we explain every position to you.
What changes for you
From obligation to steering instrument.
A well-thought-out set of accounts shifts several things:
Less tax – entirely legal.
Used elections and a clean balance-sheet policy lower your taxable result exactly where it makes sense – with no grey areas.
A rating that saves interest.
Where the bank looks, your equity stands strong. A better rating means better terms on your next round of financing.
You steer early, not late.
Fast accounts give you reliable numbers while you can still act – not once the year is long gone.
Audit certainty instead of gut feel.
Every provision and every depreciation is documented and justified. Your numbers hold up in a tax audit.
No deadlines, no fines.
Disclosure and filing run on schedule in the background with us. You no longer have to keep a single statutory deadline in your own head.
You understand your own numbers.
We explain the accounts in plain language. A black box becomes the best decision-making basis you have all year.
A personal note from Karsten Guhr
For me, a set of accounts doesn't end with a signature – it ends with the conversation about what the numbers mean. The real lever sits in the balance-sheet policy: that's where we decide together whether a euro of profit should save tax or strengthen your rating.
Head office Berlin · clients from Sylt to Garmisch
Nationwide · 100 % digital
One firm. Available anywhere in Germany.
Whether Berlin, Munich or somewhere in between: we run every mandate fully digital – DATEV-connected, signed PDFs, video meetings. No commuting, no postal delays, no 90s-style bookkeeping.
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DATEV Unternehmen online
Receipts, banking, payroll, reports – you work in the standard interface every German tax advisor speaks. No vendor lock-in.
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Video meetings instead of on-site visits
Quarterly review, tax strategy, holding check – via video with screen sharing. You save half a day every time.
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Signed PDFs & digital powers of attorney
Tax filings, annual accounts, contracts – signed via qualified e-signature. Accepted by the tax office, done in minutes.
How we work
Structured to finished accounts.
Four steps – fully digital, no ring binders:
Kick-off & data handover
We take over your bookkeeping from DATEV, review prior years, open items and contracts, and clarify your goal: rather save tax, or rather strengthen the rating?
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Preparation & balance-sheet policy
We prepare the commercial and tax balance sheets and work out the relevant elections – as concrete options with their effect on tax and key figures.
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Review & decision
We walk through the draft together. You decide, well informed, where the result should land – and we implement it.
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Filing & disclosure
We transmit the E-Bilanz to the tax office, publish on time in the company register, and discuss with you what the numbers mean for the year ahead.
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030 555 721 370Frequently asked
What owners ask about their accounts.
Answered briefly and soundly:
Ready for accounts that work?
Let's turn your obligation into leverage.
In the intro call we look at your numbers, your rating goal and your tax potential – concrete.