Chamber of tax advisors

The Chamber of Tax Consultants is the locally responsible professional association for tax consultants . The chambers are corporations under public law (KdöR). The legal basis for the establishment, organization and activity of the chambers of tax advisors are §§ 73 ff. Of the Tax Advisory Act .

All tax advisors , tax agents and tax advisory companies are compulsory members of a Chamber of Tax Advisors.

In Germany there are 21 chambers of tax advisors, which together form the umbrella organization Federal Chamber of Tax Advisors and represent a total of around 96,500 tax advisors and tax advisory companies (as of November 28, 2019):

Chamber of tax advisors	Seat	president
Federal Chamber of Tax Advisors (BStBK)	Berlin center	Hartmut Schwab
Chamber of Tax Advisors Berlin	Berlin Tiergarten	Alexander Schüffner
Brandenburg Chamber of Tax Advisors	Potsdam	Reinhard Meier
Hanseatic Chamber of Tax Advisors Bremen	Bremen	Paul Thomas Koßmann
Chamber of Tax Advisors Düsseldorf	Dusseldorf	Reinhard Verhaben
Hamburg Chamber of Tax Advisors	Hamburg	Stefan Blocker
Chamber of Tax Advisors Hessen	Frankfurt am Main	Lothar Herrmann
Chamber of Tax Advisors Cologne	Cologne	Karl-Heinz Bonjean
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Chamber of Tax Advisors	Rostock	Holger Stein
Chamber of Tax Advisors Munich	Munich	Hartmut Schwab
Chamber of Tax Advisors Lower Saxony	Hanover	Fritz Güntzler
North Baden Chamber of Tax Advisors	Heidelberg	Johannes Hurst
Nuremberg Chamber of Tax Advisors	Nuremberg	Dieter Mehnert
Rhineland-Palatinate Chamber of Tax Advisors	Mainz	Walter Sesterhenn
Saarland Chamber of Tax Advisors	Saarbrücken	Michael Leistenschneider
Chamber of Tax Advisors of the Free State of Saxony	Leipzig	Dirk Rose
Saxony-Anhalt Chamber of Tax Advisors	Magdeburg	Cornelia-Eva Lohse
Schleswig-Holstein Chamber of Tax Advisors	Kiel	Boris Kurczinki
Stuttgart Chamber of Tax Advisors	Stuttgart	Uwe Schramm
South Baden Chamber of Tax Advisors	Freiburg in Breisgau	Hans-Walter Heinz
Chamber of Tax Advisors Thuringia	Erfurt	Herbert Becherer
Chamber of tax advisors Westfalen-Lippe	Muenster	Volker Kaiser

tasks

The tasks of the chambers of tax advisors result from § 76 Tax Advisory Act (StBerG). According to this, they have to protect the professional interests of all members and to monitor the fulfillment of professional duties. Her tasks also include:

• to advise and instruct the members of the Chamber of Tax Advisors on questions of professional duties;
• mediate disputes among the members of the Chamber upon request ;
• mediate disputes between members of the Chamber and their clients upon request;
• to monitor the fulfillment of the duties incumbent on the members and to exercise the right to complain;
• to submit the lists of proposals of the honorary assessors to the professional courts of the state justice administrations;
• To create welfare institutions for tax consultants and tax agents as well as their survivors;
• To provide expert opinions requested by a court, a state tax authority or another administrative authority of the state;
• to perform the tasks assigned by law in the field of vocational training ;
• to propose the professional members of the examination boards for tax advisory professions.

One of the main tasks is to ensure the training and further education of the office staff and tax advisors . This includes the implementation of the final examination for the tax clerk and the implementation of the tax consultant examination . The chambers of tax advisors have initiated the youth campaign "More than you think", which provides information about dual vocational training for tax clerks.

literature

• Chamber of Tax Consultants Munich (Ed.): 50 Years of Chamber of Tax Consultants, 1961–2011, CHBECK, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-406-62570-1 .

Web links

• Federal Chamber of Tax Advisors

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Young talent campaign "More than you think". Federal Chamber of Tax Advisors , accessed on July 7, 2018 .