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Dr. Steffen Rapp

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Steffen specialises in tax consultancy for banks and payment transaction companies, private clients as well as medium-sized companies and entrepreneurs. Among other things, he advises clients on the VAT implications of their business relations, corporate and estate succession planning for tax purposes, real estate tax law as well as international tax law.
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German Income Tax on Cryptocurrencies? | Current rulings | Cover picture: Yurii Kibalnik
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Bitcoin & Co.: Following the ruling of the Fiscal Court of Baden-Württemberg, now also the Fiscal Court of Cologne on the taxation of cryptocurrencies

  • byAnh-Vu Tran,Dr. Steffen Rapp
  • 30. March 2022
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Overview of the case law of the fiscal courts In our last article, we reported on the ruling…
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BMF draft: Amendment of the VAT Application Decree (Umsatzsteueranwendungserlass – UstAE) regarding the management of venture capital funds | Annerton partner and tax adivsors Dr Steffen Rapp und Anh-Vu Tran | PayTechLaw Cover picture: Adobe Stock/Nuthawut
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BMF draft: amendment of the VAT Application Decree (Umsatzsteueranwendungserlass – UstAE) regarding the management of venture capital funds

  • byAnh-Vu Tran,Dr. Steffen Rapp
  • 23. March 2022
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In July 2021, the Fund Jurisdiction Act (Fondsstandortgesetz) extended the VAT exemption in section 4 No. 8 lit.…
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Entwurf BMF Schreiben Besteuerung Kryptowährung & Token | PayTechLaw | Aboltin
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Bitcoin & Co. : Draft BMF letter on the income tax treatment of cryptocurrencies and tokens – Part 2

  • byDr. Steffen Rapp,Anh-Vu Tran
  • 8. July 2021
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In Part 2 of this article on the draft BMF letter on the income tax treatment of cryptocurrencies…
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Draft BMF letter on the income tax treat-ment of cryptocurrencies and tokens | PayTechLaw | Aboltin
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Bitcoin & Co.: Draft BMF letter on the in-come tax treatment of cryptocurrencies and tokens – Part (1)

  • byAnh-Vu Tran,Dr. Steffen Rapp
  • 29. June 2021
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Initial Situation For some years now, Steffen has been reporting on the tax treatment of cryptocurrencies in his…
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Einkommensteuer | Airbnb | Selbstanzeige | PayTechLaw
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Income tax: Last chance self-indictment? What do Airbnb lessors and (former) investors at Austrian banks have in common?

  • byDr. Steffen Rapp
  • 2. October 2020
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What happened? New (Fin)tech platforms have led to the rise of innovative business models such as Airbnb which…
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Einzweck-Gutschein | Umsatzsteuer | VAT | single-purpose vouchers | PayTechLaw
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VAT-moratorium for single-purpose vouchers?

  • byDr. Steffen Rapp
  • 18. August 2020
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Special rules for the VAT treatment of vouchers since 1 January 2019 Since 1 January 2019 new rules…
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Besteuerung | Kryptowährungen | Bitcoin | taxation | PayTechLaw
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Bitcoin & Co.: current caselaw regarding the taxation of profits from the purchase and sale of cryptocurrencies

  • byDr. Steffen Rapp
  • 2. June 2020
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Background In part 1 and part 6 of my posts on the taxation of cryptocurrencies, I looked into…
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Gutscheine | Geldkarten | ZAG | Sachbezug | vouchers | prepaid cards | payments in kind | PayTechLaw
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Finally: vouchers and prepaid cards are still considered payments in kind pursuant to the German Payment Services Supervision Act (ZAG)

  • byDr. Steffen Rapp
  • 12. May 2020
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Amendments applicable to vouchers and prepaid cards Last year, I reported on the conditions under which vouchers &…
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Outsourcing des Betriebs von Geldautomaten | outsourcing of ATM operations | PayTechLaw
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ATMs & VAT: CJEU ruling regarding the outsourcing of ATM operations

  • byDr. Steffen Rapp
  • 5. November 2019
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We have already reported several times on the VAT exemption for so-called white label structures and particularly on…
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Libra und die Steuern | The tax treatment of Libra | PayTechLaw
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The tax treatment of Libra: old wine in new barrels?

  • byDr. Steffen Rapp
  • 3. September 2019
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What is the Libra cryptocurrency? Libra is a cryptocurrency which, like other cryptocurrencies, is based on a blockchain…
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