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How to Avoid Prison and Fine

The initiation of criminal tax proceedings by German tax offices, mostly as a result of innocent mistakes, according to the motto „shoot first, ask questions later“, is by now common practice, which some managing directors have already painfully experienced at first hand. The core question here is usually the demarcation between simple error correction on the one hand and (actually undesirable) punitive voluntary declaration on the other.

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