Torben Schlitt - Tax Adviser
Torben Schlitt is a tax adviser and a Partner at the Grant Thornton office in Düsseldorf. He has more than 15 years of experience in advising international companies and groups on income tax.
Before working for Grant Thornton, he spent five years at the corporate tax team of one of the Big Four and worked as an in-house tax consultant in the group tax department of a German MDAX listed industrial company for two years.
Torben Schlitt provides tax advisory services to national and international clients in many different industries for all corporate and group tax issues. He specialises on advice for tax planning and structuring and on transaction tax law.
Fields of expertise
- Company and group tax law
- Advice on tax planning and structuring
- Transaction tax law (tax due diligence, advice on SPAs)
- Assistance with tax audits and appeals
- Tax on reorganisations
Memberships
- Düsseldorf Chamber of Tax Advisers [Steuerberaterkammer Düsseldorf]
- Director of Tax Advisers Association Nordrhine-Westphalia e.V. [Steuerberaterverein Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V.]
- Tax Advisers Institute Association [Fachinstitut der Steuerberater e.V.]
- IDW “Taxation of Partnerships” working group
- Hamburg Forum for Business Taxation Law e.V. [Hamburger Forum für Unternehmenssteuerrecht e.V.]
Publications
- Kneip & Schlitt: Besteuerung von Streubesitzdividenden ist verfassungskonform [Taxation of Free Float Dividends is Constitutional], in: WPg 2021, p. 190
- Kneip & Schlitt: BMF-Schreiben zum Optionsmodell nach § 1a KStG [Federal Ministry of Finance Circular on the Option Model under section 1a of the German Corporate Income Tax Act], in: WPg 2022, p. 648
- Kneip & Schlitt: Zum Merkmal der tatsächlichen Durchführung von Gewinnabführungsverträgen [On the Characteristic of the Actual Implementation of Profit and Loss Transfer Agreements], in: WPg 2024, p. 48
- Kneip & Schlitt: Update: Verbesserte Verlustverrechnung nach dem Wachstumschancengesetz [Update: Improved Loss Offsetting under the Growth Opportunities Act], in: WPg 2024, p. 897
- Co-author of: WKGT/BDI, Ratgeber Modernisierung des Körperschaftsteuerrechts [Guidebook to Modernisation of Corporate Income Tax Law], 2nd ed. 2021
- Tax Adviser
- Master of Laws, LL.M. - Taxation
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