Christoph Kromer

Germany
International Tax, Transfer Pricing

Christoph Kromer is based in Taxand Germany where he is a tax partner with Luther in Eschborn / Frankfurt. Christoph has 20 years of professional experience as a tax director in large multinational companies and tax partner in Big 4 firms advising companies on tax accounting, tax technology, tax risk management including transfer pricing and tax strategy. Before joining Taxand Germany Christoph was leading the service lines for tax technology and tax management services at KPMG Europe.

Previously Christoph has advised multinational clients on tax strategy implementation, tax process optimisation and automation, the design and programming of tax risk management systems as well as transfer pricing master file documentation systems, global tax reporting and tax planning systems, tax assurance for ERP systems and the structuring of shared services or outsourcing in compliance with local tax documentation and retention rules. He is widely experienced in tax settlements and negotiations with the German tax authorities for German based and inbound entities. Christoph is also involved in the establishment of the German EDP accounting systems standards (GoBIT) and the development of the XBRL taxonomy for tax filings.

Christoph lectures on tax accounting and tax risk management in master studies and supervisory board member certifications at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg and at other selected universities. He regularly publishes papers on tax risk management, transfer pricing and tax accounting especially deferred taxes and IFRS.

Areas of Expertise

• International Tax
• Transfer Pricing
• Tax Accounting
• Tax Technology

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