Gerd Kostrzewa

Vita

• Certified Tax Lawyer
• Admitted to the Bar since 1996
• Born 1964 in Donaueschingen, Germany

Education and Former Activities

• Ernst & Young AG, Düsseldorf (1995-1999)
• University of Konstanz (Legal Trainee/Referendar 1993; Assessor 1995)
• German University for Administrative Sciences, Speyer (1994)

Affiliations

• International Bar Association (IBA), Officer of the Individual Tax and Private Clients Committee
• German Association for Inheritance Law and Property Successions (DVEV)
• German-Israeli Lawyers Association (DIJ)
• German-Swiss Lawyer Association (DSJV)

Publications

• Möglichkeiten einer Berichtigung zu Unrecht in Rechnung gestellter Umsatzsteuer

  Der Betrieb 2001, p. 667 by Dr. Dieter Bohnert and Gerd Kostrzewa
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Lectures

• How to deal with those difficult assets

  18th IBA International Wealth Transfer Practice Conference, London, March 2013
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• EU Principles that might save your private clients. The German perspective

  IBA Annual Conference, Dublin, October 2012
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• 12 TIEAs later: Are things any clearer or at least more transparent?

  Latest developments in voluntary disclosure and exchange of information, 17th IBA International Wealth Transfer Practice Conference, London, March 2012
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• Regularisation of German Clients

  German Clients & Swiss Bankers, Academy & Finance, Zurich, April 2011
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• The grass is always greener on the other side of the hedge - income taxation of executives, fund managers and other professionals

  16th IBA International Wealth Transfer Practice Conference, London, March 2011
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• Just What Do They Know? Exchange of Information between Tax Authorities

  IBA Annual Conference, Vancouver, October 2010
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• Treaties: the good, the bad and the ugly

  15th IBA International Wealth Transfer Practice Conference, London, March 2010
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• A carrot, but not too sweet - compensating executives in the new economic environment

  IBA Annual Conference, Madrid, October 2009
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• Residence - coming and going

  14th IBA International Wealth Transfer Practice Conference, London, March 2009
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• Anti-avoidance provisions - another great planning technique bites the dust

  IBA Annual Conference, Buenos Aires, October 2008
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• Tax fraud/compliance - regularisation of non-compliant unreported structures / Selling the family business - international tax structures

  13th IBA International Wealth Transfer Practice Conference, London, March 2008
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• Non-corporate tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions

  IBA Annual Conference, Singapur, October 2007
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• Reporting requirements and voluntary disclosure

  IBA Annual Conference, Chicago, September 2006
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