Cost-effective Working remotely from Germany

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Canadian, American and NRI engineers and IT professionals on German contracts, and German nationals resident in Canada or the USA. Cost-effective working remotely from Germany with a fixed fee agreed in writing before any work starts. Call the 24-hour helpline on +1 (416) 619-0068, or request a written quote today.

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Germany in 60 words

German employment taxation is administered through a payroll system with its own class and church-tax elements, so a foreign assignee's net pay reflects deductions that a home-country credit claim has to characterise correctly before it can use them. Expats in Germany do not share a single tax position. This page separates them by residence first, because every other answer follows from that one.

Who we act for here

Canadian, American and NRI engineers and IT professionals on German contracts, and German nationals resident in Canada or the USA.

Regional filing pattern

A calendar year, monthly payroll withholding, and a return that reconciles it: that is the European pattern. The complication for a foreign credit is that not everything deducted is a creditable income tax.

The question that decides it

German employment taxation is administered through a payroll system with its own class and church-tax elements, so a foreign assignee's net pay reflects deductions that a home-country credit claim has to characterise correctly before it can use them.

Working remotely from Germany

This page takes the Germany corridor and narrows it to one situation. The general position is on the Germany country guide; what follows is what changes for this specific case.

Working from Germany does not make your employer's income foreign, and it does not make your own income exempt. Tax follows where the work is performed, which means the country the laptop is in has a claim regardless of where the logo is.

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What working remotely from Germany costs here

Working remotely from Germany prices on your contract rather than your desk: an employee whose employer has to run a German payroll is a different file from a contractor invoicing from abroad, and where a social-security coverage certificate is needed, obtaining it is a step of its own. Quoted in writing before work starts.

Individual tax filing

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

One engagement for a personal return that touches more than one country: the income, the assets held abroad and the relief claimed against them.
See the fee schedule

Payroll & mobility setup

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

The employer side of mobility — where to register, what to withhold, and what to report once someone works across a border.
See the fee schedule

Non-resident & departure filings

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Returns for the year you leave, the year you arrive, and the years you earn rental or pension income from a country you no longer live in.
See the fee schedule

Foreign asset & information reporting

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

The information returns that carry the heaviest penalties — foreign accounts, foreign property, foreign affiliates — prepared from one asset list.
See the fee schedule

Catch-up & voluntary disclosure

From $349

fixed, quoted before work starts

Late and unfiled years, sequenced and filed together, with the relief available for the delay identified before the first return goes in.
See the fee schedule

Corporate cross-border filing

From $999

fixed, quoted before work starts

Corporate returns with foreign income, related-party reporting and cross-border structures, for companies of any size.
See the fee schedule

Transfer pricing documentation

From $2,500

fixed, quoted before work starts

Intercompany pricing documented before it is questioned — the functional analysis, the benchmarking and the files that support it.
See the fee schedule

Estate & trust filing

From $799

fixed, quoted before work starts

For an estate holding property in more than one country, or a trust with beneficiaries who are taxed somewhere else.
See the fee schedule

All published fees on one page — one page, every published fee, nothing quoted as a vague bracket.

Do you still file at home?

For most people moving to Germany the answer is that at least one home obligation survives. Canadian residence ends with the ties; Indian residence ends with the day counts; US citizenship-based taxation ends only on a formal expatriation.

German employment taxation is administered through a payroll system with its own class and church-tax elements, so a foreign assignee's net pay reflects deductions that a home-country credit claim has to characterise correctly before it can use them.

Residency and the tie-breaker

The tie-breaker exists precisely because domestic tests overlap. Applied in order — permanent home, centre of vital interests, habitual abode, nationality — it produces one residence, and the case is usually decided long before the last test.

We confirm the treaty in force for your year, including any protocol and any modification made through the multilateral instrument, before relying on an article. Treaty networks change, and a summary written three years ago is not evidence about this year.

Income by type: who taxes what

Income typeGeneral treatment
Dividends, interest and royaltiesTaxed at source by withholding, at a rate a treaty may reduce — but only if the payer holds valid documentation before payment.
Directors' feesFrequently covered by their own treaty article and taxed where the company is resident, which can differ from where the meetings were held.
Royalties on work created before you movedSourced by where the right is exploited rather than where it was created, so the income can be taxable in a country you have never worked in.
Scholarships, grants and trainee paymentsOften exempted for a limited period from arrival under the students-and-trainees article, claimed by filing rather than automatically.
Trust distributions received thereDepends on the trust's own residence and on whether the distribution carries income or capital, and the two systems frequently characterise it differently.
Rental income from property thereAlmost always taxable where the property is situated, often by withholding on gross rent unless a net-basis election is made.
Pensions and retirement incomeDecided by the specific pension article, which is the least uniform provision in the treaty network.

The local nuance

German employment taxation is administered through a payroll system with its own class and church-tax elements, so a foreign assignee's net pay reflects deductions that a home-country credit claim has to characterise correctly before it can use them. That is the part a general expatriate guide will not tell you, and it is usually the part that decides the number at the bottom of the return.

If your position runs mostly in one direction, the Canada ↔ Germany cross-border tax page carries both filing calendars side by side, the treaty article by article, and the withholding table.

We also publish regional pages for Germany — states, provinces and major centres — at our Germany regional index, which is the better starting point if your question is about a specific state or province rather than the country as a whole.

The arithmetic, worked through

Put numbers against it and the shape of the answer is obvious.

Credit relief on one stream of income

Take C$98,000 of income taxed in both countries. Assume the other country charged 23% on it and the home country would charge 31% on the same amount.

ItemAmount
Income taxed in both countriesC$98,000
Tax paid abroad (assumed 23%)C$22,540
Home tax on the same income (assumed 31%)C$30,380
Credit available (lesser of the two)C$22,540
Home tax still payableC$7,840

The credit absorbs C$22,540 and leaves C$7,840 payable at home, because the home rate on this income is the higher of the two. The balance is real cash and it is due on the home timetable, which is why instalments get raised in the first meeting. That is an illustration of the mechanism, not a prediction about your file — the same computation on your figures is the first thing we do.

The figures here are an illustration, not an engagement: amounts are picked so the mechanism is easy to follow, and every rate or threshold is an assumption of the example. Before anything is filed for you, each one is confirmed with the issuing authority for your own tax year.

Three mistakes we see most

  1. Waiting for the foreign assessment before paying anything at home, and collecting interest on a liability that later disappears.
  2. Treating a bank's tax-residence questionnaire as the answer rather than as a question, and certifying a status that the filings then contradict.
  3. Assuming the local adviser has covered the home-country consequence, and the home adviser has covered the local one, when neither has looked at the interaction.
  • Every statutory figure in your file is verified for your own year at source.
  • 18,000+ clients served across 4 global offices: India, the USA, Canada and the UAE.
  • Documents move through an access-controlled portal rather than email.

The first call establishes whether there is work to do. Everything after that is quoted.

Read and approved for the 2025 and 2026 filing seasons by Udit Gupta, Cross-Border Tax Expert, Legal Quotient Consultants. This is general information rather than advice about your file — a short call is the way to get the second.

Expat tax Germany, in practice

People reach this page searching for expat tax Germany. It is covered here as it applies to working remotely from Germany — who it applies to, what has to be filed, and what it costs, at a fixed fee agreed before the work starts.

Canadian, American and NRI engineers and IT professionals on German contracts, and German nationals resident in Canada or the USA.

From first contact to filed return

  1. Tell us the dates and we will tell you the position

    Arrival, departure, the years in between — the residence question turns on those before anything else.

  2. Fixed fee, defined scope, in writing

    Both agreed before work starts, so the engagement cannot grow into a larger bill.

  3. Prepared together, not passed between firms

    You are not the go-between for two sets of advisers working from two sets of assumptions.

  4. Reviewed, approved, filed

    A named practitioner checks it, you approve it, and then it goes.

The difference a dedicated cross-border team makes

Factor Legal Quotient Hourly billing model
Pricing A fixed fee, agreed in writing before work starts Hourly, billed as incurred
Experience 15+ years of cross-border work, 18,000+ clients Varies by file
Both sides of the border Prepared together by one team, so relief is claimed exactly once One country at a time, reconciled later
Who reviews it A named practitioner, published on the page Whoever the queue reaches
Where the work happens Our offices in India, the USA, Canada and the UAE Whichever single office you can travel to

Key terms behind this page, defined

Scope boundary
The written line between what we do and what another adviser keeps, agreed at the start so nothing is duplicated or dropped.
First-time penalty abatement
An administrative US waiver of certain penalties for a filer with an otherwise compliant history, requested rather than granted automatically.
Physical presence test
One of the two US qualifying tests for the exclusion, satisfied by days of presence in a foreign country during a twelve-month period.
Effectively connected income
US-source income connected with a US trade or business, taxed on a net basis at graduated rates on a return rather than by flat gross withholding.

The published fees closest to working remotely from Germany

The second question is how many countries the year touches. One home country and Germany, with the days clearly recorded, is a straightforward split; add a third jurisdiction, or a year where nobody kept a travel record and the days must be reconstructed, and the work behind the published fees grows accordingly.

Payroll & mobility setup

$999fixed, before work starts

Covers: What an employer owes when an employee works in another country: the registrations, the withholding and the reporting that follow.

See this fee page

Individual tax filing

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: Returns for people whose tax position did not stay in one country, including the years residence itself is in question.

See this fee page

Non-resident & departure filings

$349fixed, before work starts

Covers: Returns for the year you leave, the year you arrive, and the years you earn rental or pension income from a country you no longer live in.

See this fee page

Why choose Legal Quotient for working remotely from Germany

The order of filing is planned, not improvised

Which return goes first decides whether relief can be claimed at all. That sequence is worked out before anything is submitted.

The quote comes from your documents

Nothing is priced from a phone call. We read what you have first, then the fee is set — so the scope and the number are agreed on the same evidence.

A named reviewer on every file

Every page on this site and every file we deliver says which practitioner reviewed it — a person, not a team inbox.

Both sides prepared together

Two returns built against each other by one team, so relief is claimed exactly once and nothing falls between the two systems.

Two of the firm’s advisers at a desk in the Delhi office

From first call to filed return

Step 1

First conversation

We start with the chronology: dates, countries, and what has already been filed

Step 2

Written quote

You get the scope and the fee in writing before we touch anything

Step 3

Preparation and sign-off

The work is prepared and reviewed by a named person, not a queue

Step 4

Submission

Nothing is filed until you have read it

The team at work in the open-plan office

The engagement, start to finish

  • Step 1: Upload the file as it stands – A secure link arrives after the first call. Incomplete is fine; that is what the review is for.
  • Step 2: The number is settled up front – Priced from your own documents and confirmed in writing before any preparation begins.
  • Step 3: Both returns on one desk – One engagement covers every country the file touches, reconciled line against line.
  • Step 4: Your approval, then the filing – The return is yours to check first. We file once you say so.

Quoted up front, in writing.

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Deemed disposition on death Deemed disposition on death — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Tax residency certificate and Form 10F The full guide to tax residency certificate and form 10f, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Indian reassessment notices (s.148) Its own page: Indian reassessment notice 148 — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
India ↔ Canada — DTAA article by article Everything on India ↔ Canada — DTAA article by article, at the same depth as this page.
Working remotely from abroad — the tax implications Tax implications working remotely abroad — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
NRE, NRO and FCNR accounts — how each is taxed The full guide to NRE, NRO and FCNR accounts — how each is taxed, with the fee fixed before any work starts.

Who we bring this work to

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Tax for welders & skilled trades Everything on welders & skilled trades tax, at the same depth as this page.
Mining & energy cross-border tax Mining & energy cross border tax — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Technology & SaaS cross-border tax The full guide to technology & saas cross border tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Tax for dentists Its own page: dentists tax — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Non-resident landlords — what we charge Everything on non-resident landlords what we charge, at the same depth as this page.
Seafarers & mariners — what we charge Seafarers & mariners what we charge — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Architecture practices cross-border tax The full guide to architecture practices cross border tax, with the fee fixed before any work starts.

Where our clients live and work

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Retiring in Italy — pensions & withholding Retiring in Italy — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Moving to Netherlands — the tax year you leave The full guide to moving to Netherlands, with the fee fixed before any work starts.
Retiring in Australia — pensions & withholding Its own page: retiring in Australia — mechanism, deadlines and published fees.
Working remotely from France Everything on working remotely from France, at the same depth as this page.
Buying or selling property in Portugal Buying or selling property in Portugal — the guide, the FAQ and the fixed fee.
Moving to Ireland — the tax year you leave The full guide to moving to Ireland, with the fee fixed before any work starts.

The people on your file

Five named practitioners, each with the part of a cross-border file they carry. Every page on this site says who reviewed it, and the reviewer is one of these people rather than an unnamed team.

Udit Gupta

Udit Gupta

Cross-Border Tax Expert

CA (ICAI), In-Depth Tax Trained

Reviews and signs off the practice's cross-border positions, and carries final responsibility for the treaty analysis on every file that leaves the office.

Abhinav Gupta

Abhinav Gupta

Canada Tax / International Tax

Canada Tax, International Tax, Cross-Border Tax, Transfer Pricing

Canadian returns with foreign income, non-resident filings, and the transfer-pricing documentation that runs alongside intercompany work.

Raghav Gupta

Raghav Gupta

International Tax

International Tax, Transfer Pricing Specialist

Benchmarking, method selection and the local-file and master-file sets that support a group's pricing policy under examination.

Anmol Mittal

Anmol Mittal

Canada and US tax

CPA Canada, CPA USA, CA (ICAI)

Files that have to be right on both sides of the border at once — dual filings, streamlined catch-ups, and the foreign tax credit reconciliation between them.

Vinayak Indolia

Vinayak Indolia

CFO advisory

CPA, CA. Fractional CFO and Senior Advisory Specialist

Groups that need the tax position and the finance function to agree: structure reviews, intercompany policy, and the reporting a board can act on.

Meet the whole team

Cross-border tax case studies

Case study 1

Treaty Relief Claimed on a Cross-Border Estate

The estate article can extend a proportionate credit where the two systems would otherwise both tax the same asset. Claiming it requires a valuation and a disclosure the estate may not expect to make.

Read how this one runs
Case study 2

Withholding Reduced by the Right Article

Dividends, interest and royalties each have their own article and their own rate, and the payer applies whichever it is satisfied of. Establishing entitlement before payment is what secures the lower rate at source.

Read how this one runs
Case study 3

Paid for Work Done in Canada While Living Elsewhere

Employment carried out in Canada is taxable here even where the employer and the bank account are not. The engagement establishes how many of the days were worked in Canada, applies the treaty employment article, and deals with the withholding the payer has already taken.

Read how this one runs
Case study 4

A Student or Researcher Covered by a Treaty Article

Several treaties carry a dedicated article for students, trainees and visiting researchers that displaces the ordinary employment rules. Whether it applies turns on the purpose of the stay and the source of the funds, both of which are evidenced rather than asserted.

Read how this one runs
Case study 5

The Same Income Taxed Twice on Paper

Relief usually exists and is lost to sequence: one country taxes at source and the other credits it, and preparing them in the wrong order claims a credit against a figure nobody has computed.

Read how this one runs
Case study 6

A Relief That Turned on Days Nobody Had Recorded

Treaty exemption, residence and social security are each decided by a count that has to be evidenced rather than recalled. The engagement builds the record from tickets, rosters and payroll before applying any article.

Read how this one runs
Case study 7

Residency Changed Mid-Year and Both Returns Assumed a Full One

A move part-way through a year produces two part-year positions, not two full ones. The engagement establishes the date residence actually changed, allocates income either side of it, and amends whichever return was filed on the wrong footing.

Read how this one runs
Case study 8

Tax Deducted When Buying From an NRI

Withholding on a sale by a non-resident is applied to the sale value rather than to the gain, so it routinely exceeds the tax due. A lower-deduction certificate obtained before completion avoids locking the difference up.

Read how this one runs

All case studies — every published engagement in one place.

Delivery, coverage and how we work

Each of these carries its own guide, pricing pointers and FAQ.

Where the work is delivered

More coverage detail

Core International & Cross-Border Tax Services

International Tax Planning & Advisory

Strategy and compliance for income, assets and families spread across borders.

Treaty residency & tie-breaker
FATCA reporting (Form 8938)
Foreign tax credit (Form 1116)
Multi-country filing calendar
Real estate holding structures
International tax planning
Pre-immigration tax planning
Family office structures
One coordinating team: filings on every side of the border are sequenced so treaty relief and foreign tax credits are claimed once — and in the right country.

U.S. & Cross-Border Tax Returns

Form 1040 from abroad
US state non-resident returns
FBAR (FinCEN 114) filing
Form 5472 — foreign-owned US corp
FIRPTA withholding (Form 8288)
US estate tax exposure
IRS streamlined foreign offshore
PFIC reporting (Form 8621)
Dual filers: U.S. citizens in Canada and Canadians with U.S. income run two parallel systems — we prepare both, in the right order, every year.

Expat & Emigration Tax

Departure tax leaving Canada
T1161 properties on emigration
Residency planning
Step-up in cost base on arrival
Split-year residency
Employment income under a treaty
Social security totalization
Returning to Canada after years abroad
The move year is its own project: the elections and valuations filed that year decide the next decade of both countries’ returns.

Non-Resident Canadian Tax

Section 216 rental return
NR4 & NR6 withholding
Section 217 pension return
Section 116 clearance certificate
Regulation 105 waiver
Non-resident employment income
Taxable Canadian property
Part XIII withholding review
Default withholding is 25% of gross: elective returns routinely turn over-withheld rent and pensions into refunds.

Transfer Pricing & BEPS

s.247 contemporaneous documentation
Functional & risk analysis
Benchmarking study
Intercompany agreements
Country-by-country report
BEPS & Pillar Two
Permanent establishment risk
TP audit defence file
Documentation prepared with the return is the cheapest insurance in international tax; reconstructing it during an audit is the most expensive.

Cross-Border Estates & Trusts

Cross-border wills
US estate tax for non-resident aliens
Terminal return & clearance certificate
Non-resident trusts (s.94)
T1141 & T1142 trust reporting
Inheriting property abroad
Graduated rate estates
Post-mortem planning & pipeline
Wills drafted for one country routinely misfire in the other — deemed disposition here, estate tax there, credits in between.

Cross-Border Corporate Tax

Entity selection across borders
Business profits & PE
Intercompany loans & thin cap
Paying dividends to a foreign parent
Global mobility & day tracking
Debt vs equity funding
Branch or subsidiary
Cross-border M&A due diligence
Expansion raises the same four questions every time — entity, PE, repatriation, payroll. We answer them before the tax authorities do.

India Tax for NRIs & Returning Residents

NRI residency day tests
NRE, NRO & FCNR accounts
TDS on property (s.195)
Lower or nil TDS certificate
Repatriating sale proceeds
Capital gains on Indian shares
India–Canada DTAA
ITR-2 for NRIs
The deduction is taken on the sale price, not the gain — which is why an NRI property sale strands cash unless the certificate is applied for before closing.

Canadian Tax with a Foreign Element

T1135 foreign property
T1134 foreign affiliates
Departure tax
Newcomer's first return
Returning to Canada
Split-year residency
US citizens in Canada
Canada–US corridor
Residency is decided on facts, not on a form — and the year you arrive or leave is the one where the largest amounts turn on the smallest details.

UAE Tax for Expats & Their Home Country

Expat tax in the UAE
Moving to the UAE
Moving back from the UAE
UAE property purchases
Retiring in the UAE
Canada–UAE corridor
India–UAE DTAA
US–UAE corridor
A zero-tax country is only half the answer — the question that decides the bill is whether the country you came from still treats you as resident.

Industries & Client Types We Serve Worldwide

Global E-commerce & Marketplaces
Technology & SaaS
Professional Services Firms
Cross-Border Real Estate
Importers, Exporters & Manufacturers
Athletes, Artists & Entertainers
Remote Workers & Digital Nomads
Investment Funds & Holding Companies

Global E-commerce & Marketplaces

  • Foreign VAT / GST / sales tax registrations
  • Marketplace withholding reviews
  • Inventory nexus & PE analysis
  • Multi-currency books reconciled
Explore E-commerce & Marketplaces

Technology & SaaS

  • Cross-border revenue sourcing & withholding
  • IP structuring with real substance
  • Equity for cross-border teams
  • U.S. expansion: entity & PE setup
Explore Technology & SaaS

Importers, Exporters & Manufacturers

  • Transfer pricing documentation (s.247)
  • Customs value vs transfer price
  • Foreign affiliate reporting (T1134)
  • Country-by-country reporting
Explore Trade & Manufacturing

Athletes, Artists & Entertainers

Performance income is taxed where earned — Regulation 105 in Canada, withholding agreements in the U.S. — with special treaty articles overriding the usual rules.

Performance income is taxed where the performance happens, and the deduction is usually taken at source on the gross fee before expenses. Recovering the difference is a filing exercise in the other country, and it only works if the tour, the residency and the withholding certificates were documented while the work was being done.

  • Reg 105 & U.S. CWA agreements
  • Multi-state & country calendars
  • Touring income allocation
  • Royalty & image-rights withholding
Explore Athletes & Entertainers

Remote Workers & Digital Nomads

  • Residency analysis before moving
  • Employer payroll exposure
  • Totalization & social security
  • Foreign tax credits
Explore Remote Workers

Investment Funds & Holding Companies

  • Treaty access & PPT reviews
  • FAPI & surplus computations
  • Withholding-efficient routing
  • Governance & substance
Explore Funds & Holdcos

Germany — questions we are asked

Do I have to file at home while living in Germany?

Residence decides it, and residence is a question of facts rather than of where your post arrives. The one exception is US citizenship, which carries the filing obligation with the person wherever they go. So the first thing we establish is which system still claims you.

Is there a treaty between my country and Germany?

Possibly, and the version in force for your year is the one that matters — protocols and multilateral-instrument positions change what a treaty does without changing its name. We check it against the authority rather than a summary. Where no treaty applies, domestic relief takes over.

I own property in Germany. Where is the rent taxed?

In Germany, because that is where the property sits. The complication is the base: gross-rent withholding takes no account of mortgage interest, tax or repairs, so a leveraged property can face tax on turnover. An election onto net profit, where it exists, is what fixes that — and it has its own timing.

Is there a limit on the foreign tax credit?

Yes, and it is the whole design. To calculate the limit you compute the US tax on your foreign-source income in that category; the credit cannot exceed it, because its purpose is to stop double taxation, not to refund another country's tax. Pay a higher rate abroad than the United States charges and the excess is not lost but deferred, becoming a carryover for a year with room. Pay a lower rate and the credit simply covers the foreign tax. See Form 1116.

Do I have to file in both countries?

Frequently yes, and the two filings do different jobs. The country where the income arises taxes it at source; the country where you are resident taxes your worldwide income and then gives credit for the tax already paid. Filing only one side is what leaves relief unclaimed — the credit has to be asked for on a return. We prepare both sides so the numbers agree. See dual filing.

I have not filed for several years while living abroad — what are my options?

Both countries have routes back, and using one before they contact you is what preserves the relief. On the US side there are procedures aimed at taxpayers whose failure was not wilful, including one designed for people living outside the country, and separate procedures for late account reports and information returns alone. Canada has its voluntary disclosures programme and taxpayer relief for penalties and interest. Filing quietly and hoping is the one approach with no protection attached to it. See catch-up filing.

Tax terms explained

Superficial lossCompliance calendarExemption methodExempt surplusWrapped assetNRINet worth assessmentForm 8938 thresholdNon-discrimination articleStaking rewardTax residencyCentral management and controlQEF electionSection 195 TDS Browse the full A–Z glossary

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Adjacent services

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What this costs

Master file & CbCR — fixed-fee price15CA/15CB remittance certification — fixed-fee priceT2 with foreign income — fixed-fee priceUS state nexus review — fixed-fee price
Fixed fee agreed before we start

A fixed fee for your Germany filing

Describe what happened and which countries are involved; the fee comes back in writing before anything begins.

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