• Vocational training in a small tax consulting firm
• Study of economics in Würzburg (focus on taxes)
• Tax consultants' exam in 1999
• Worked in the tax and legal department of a medium-sized auditing and tax consulting firm in Stuttgart
• Head of the clients' bookkeeping and individual tax returns department of the above firm since 2000

Main working areas and interests:

• Payroll tax and social insurance law
• VAT
• Income tax / complex tax returns
• Tax consultancy for artists
• International assignments (expatriates)
• Bookkeeping and tax matters of the local permanent establishments of foreign enterprises
• Lectures for the Association of Tax
  Consultants in Stuttgart