In a recent ruling on the standard rateable valuation for calculating property tax, the German Federal Constitutional Court determined that the current procedure for tax collection based on outdated a
For the President of the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Achim Wambach, the decision reached today by the Federal Constitutional Court in regard to the ECB's OMT programme constitutes a w
The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe has ruled the German inheritance tax in its current form illegal. Inheritance tax breaks for family-run businesses, the judges decided, violate the consti