Dear Sir or Madam,
dear Clients!
In our e-mails of July 31, 2018 and December 20, 2019 (enclosed) we have informed you about the reporting obligations for the Transparency Register.
These notification requirements have been tightened again since August 2021!
All legal entities and registered partnerships have been obliged to notify the Federal Gazette as the registrar of their beneficial owners. Reliefs are only applied in individual cases.
Up to now, most companies have been able to dispense with notification to the transparency register, as their beneficial owners are already apparent from the commercial register, for example.
As of 01.08.2021, this "notification fiction" has ceased to exist without replacement!
To implement the new reporting requirements, depending on the legal form of the company, transition periods exist until March, June or December 2022.
Further information you can also find in the FAQ of the Federal Administrative Office:
Best regards
e-mails of December 20, 2019 - Last Minute: "transparency register”
Ladies and gentlemen,
dear clients,
until the end of the year you can avoid fines and their notices!
Since October 2017, legal entities under private law and registered partnerships have been obliged to notify the Federal Gazette as the registrar of their beneficial owners electronically via www.transparenzregister.de for entry in the transparency register.
Details can be found in our e-mail of 31.07.2018 below.
In addition, we would like to point out that GmbHs are not obliged to report to the transparency register if the electronic list of shareholders can be retrieved from the commercial register.
In recent weeks, numerous legal entities have already received information on impending fines from the Federal Administrative Office.
The situation is now set to worsen considerably in 2020: the fine notices will also be issued after 31.12.2019. The issue of the fine notices can be avoided by making the notification of the beneficial owners before the end of 2019.
If necessary, please contact us at short notice!
Further information you can also find in the FAQ of the Federal Administrative Office:
Best regards