Torben Schlitt - Tax Adviser
Torben Schlitt is a certified tax adviser and a Partner at Grant Thornton’s Duesseldorf office. He has more than 13 years of experience in national and international tax advisory services.
Before working for Grant Thornton, he was part of the corporate tax and international corporate tax team at one of the Big4 for around five years 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 different industries for all corporate and group tax issues with a special focus on M&A projects.
Fields of expertise
- M&A tax advisory services
- Tax due diligence (buy-side/sell-side)
- National and international restructurings incl. carve-outs
- Tax optimised financing structures
- SPA advice
Memberships
- Duesseldorf Chamber of Tax Advisers [Steuerberaterkammer Düsseldorf]
- North-Rhine Westphalia Tax Advisers’ Association [Steuerberaterverband Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V.]
- Institute of auditors working-group “Taxation of Partnerships” [IDW-Arbeitskreis „Besteuerung von Personengesellschaften“]
Qualifications
- Tax Adviser
- Master of Laws, LL.M. - Taxation
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EU creates basis for information exchange in GloBE Information Returns
DAC 9 – the EU has reached agreement on the exchange of information for GloBE Information Returns (GIR) for companies subject to Pillar Two
On 11 March 2025 the Council reached an agreement on the exchange of information for GloBE Information Returns (GIR) for companies affected by Pillar Two. This is designed to create a Union-wide basis for the automatic exchange of information on GloBE Information Returns. For companies with Pillar Two duties, this means that in future they will be able to file their GIR centrally in only one member state. DAC9 thereby provides a substantial simplifica-tion for multinational and large German groups of companies that fall under the German Mini-mum Tax Act (MinStG).
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Corporate taxation and plans for legislation in 2025
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