In many companies, tax and compliance risks remain unnoticed for a long time – often until they are uncovered during an audit. The consequences can include additional tax payments, liability risks for the company and responsible individuals, and significant internal effort.
A Health Check addresses exactly this challenge. It provides a structured, risk-oriented review of relevant processes, postings and documentation, and clearly identifies where concrete action is required – ideally before tax authorities, the German Pension Insurance, main customs offices or other authorities become involved.
Risks frequently arise at the interfaces between different tax types and compliance areas, where responsibilities overlap and issues are easily overlooked in day-to-day operations. This is precisely where a combined Health Check creates added value by taking a holistic view of interconnected processes.
At the same time, the focus is not limited to risk mitigation. A Health Check creates transparency, highlights optimization potential and often reveals opportunities for direct financial benefits.
The decisive question therefore is not whether risks exist – but whether you are already aware of them.
A Health Check is not an abstract concept, but a clearly structured approach with one objective: making risks visible, improving processes and strengthening compliance in a sustainable manner.
Our approach follows five clearly defined phases. This ensures transparency throughout the project and allows you to understand at any time where you stand and which concrete value is being created.
Tax and compliance risks rarely arise in isolation. Processes are interconnected, and it is precisely at these interfaces where the greatest practical challenges occur.
Our combined Health Checks address these interdependencies by taking a holistic perspective rather than reviewing individual tax types in isolation. This increases transparency, reduces friction losses and strengthens compliance sustainably.
Typical interfaces include, among others, VAT and wage tax, social security, customs, contract management, data protection, transfer pricing and further tax and legal topics.
Your advantage: You gain a clear understanding not only of individual risks, but also of their interdependencies – enabling targeted optimization where the greatest added value is created.
Employment and social security law risks often arise not from isolated errors, but from unclear responsibilities, evolved processes and a lack of coordination between HR, payroll, specialist departments and external service providers. The consequences range from significant back payments to personal liability risks for managing directors and other responsible corporate bodies.
International trade flows are becoming increasingly complex due to new regulations such as CBAM, preferential trade agreements and additional compliance requirements. The Customs Health Check creates transparency, identifies risks at an early stage and lays the foundation for secure and controllable customs-related processes.
Part 2 of our four-part Health Check series: A Wage Tax Health Check helps companies identify typical tax risks at an early stage and review internal processes. Errors frequently arise in areas such as entertainment expenses, company events, gifts, or the private use of company cars and e-bikes – often due to unclear responsibilities or missing data flows between departments. A structured Health Check creates transparency, identifies optimization potential and better prepares companies for wage tax audits.
Part 1 of our four-part Health Check series: Why a (VAT) Health Check can deliver value for your organization and why it should include interface issues with other tax types (combined Health Check).
