Legal Affairs, Fair Play

Business law

• suggestions and statements about planned guidelines, laws and directives of the European Union, the German Federal Government and the federal states
• legal information, particularly about commercial and competition law, industrial, contract, corporation and company law, European law, data protection, industrial property law and labour law
• seminars and information brochures about specific legal issues
• appointing and certifying experts and publishing the IHK directory of experts
• statements on entries in the commercial register

Taxes and finances

• information about current changes to taxation law and information concerning tax issues
• information about sales tax regulations in the EU internal market
• information about foreign taxes and double taxation agreements
• information about public funding assistance; IHK subsidy database
• statements on applications for the granting of public loans, securities and aid packages
• proposing tax-court judges
• annual analysis of budget plans for selected towns and local authorities