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Tax advisor liability – statute of limitations in the case of basic rulings

If tax advisors make mistakes and clients suffer losses as a result, the question of whether and to what extent a limitation period has already expired is not easy to answer in legal terms.

Every company claiming credit should check claims for repayment! – On the inadmissibility of so-called processing fees in loan agreements with companies.

According to recent rulings by the Federal Court of Justice (judgments of 4 July 2017, case no. XI ZR 562/15 and case no. XI ZR 233/16), processing fees that have been customary for a long time are also inadmissible for loans to companies and thus corresponding agreements in loan agreements – even in the case of overdraft facilities – are invalid.