Basic knowledge of sales tax law

Compact - up-to-date - legally compliant

This training is held in German.
Have you been entrusted with VAT issues for the first time and now have to solve them? As a practitioner , do you have individual knowledge, but lack an "eye for the big picture"? Or did you learn all this some time ago but now need a "refresher"? In all cases, this basic seminar will help you: it will show you the interrelationships of VAT law from the ground up, familiarize you with the special way of thinking and help you immediately implement it in your day-to-day business.

Contents

Functioning of value added tax law

  • Legal bases, systematics, audit sequences.
  • Current legislative changes are constantly taken into account and presented in the training .

Basics of sales taxation

  • The entrepreneur and the company.
  • Organschaft.
  • Exchange of services.

Subject of taxation

  • The turnover.

Not every turnover costs taxes

  • The tax exemptions.

Calculation of the tax

  • The tax base and the tax rate.

Forms of turnover

  • Deliveries, services, principle of uniformity.
  • Main and ancillary services.
  • Work deliveries and work services.

Deliveries and other services abroad

  • Reliable assessment, correct booking and documentation.

Billing your own services correctly

  • What information should be included in the outgoing invoice?

Electronic invoices

  • Beware of e-mail & co, XRechnung, ZUGFeRD and EDI interfaces.

Incoming invoices from Germany and abroad

  • Reduce your own tax through input tax deduction.
  • Input tax deduction and input tax correction.
  • Purchase tax and import sales tax.
  • Secure testing and processing.

Outgoing invoices at home and abroad

  • Correct billing within Germany.
  • Billing in online retail.
  • Invoicing of deliveries and other services to other EU countries.
  • Invoicing of deliveries and other services to third countries.

What does the administration want to know?

  • Reporting of sales for tax and statistical purposes.

Learning environment

In your online learning environment, you will find useful information, downloads and extra services for this qualification measure after you have registered.

Your benefit

VAT law is very complex. This is also due to the fact that the tax office places high formal requirements on companies. This training shows you how to fulfill your VAT obligations correctly. The focus is on your day-to-day business! You will learn on the basis of practical cases,

  • what special VAT features you need to be aware of,
  • how necessary forms, e.g. advance returns or annual declarations, are to be understood,
  • which domestic and foreign invoices are considered to be correct,
  • what steps you need to take in the event of incorrect invoices and
  • how deliveries and services must be treated for VAT purposes.

This way you avoid mistakes, expensive additional payments or unjustified payments!

We will be happy to forward your questions to the speaker in advance.

Methods

Lecture, practical examples, workshop atmosphere. Your "problems" are worked out and solved in free discussion.

Recommended for

Specialists and managers from finance, accounting and tax, from import and export departments and auditing as well as from tax, business and management consultancy, purchasing and sales persons. Suitable for career changers with basic commercial knowledge.

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Attendees comments

"The lecturer made the course very lively and very competent."

Inga Meins
home of jobs holding GmbH, Hamburg

"The process was very well organized."

Michaela Frahm
Special-purpose road association of the municipalities of the Segeberg district, Bad Segeberg

Seminar evaluation for "Basic knowledge of sales tax law"

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04.06.2025
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Berlin
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Hamburg
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