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Yes you are correct for company law, but not tax law, see the §§ 1, 2 of the german corporate income tax law. ("KStG" http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/kstg_1977/BJNR025990976.ht...). Unfortunately there is no official english version, but the tax code is formulated in such a convoluted way that GoogleTranslate can't make it much worse ;)

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German taxes, more than 1000 pages of new rules written each month, nobody can follow, not even the state employees taking care of checking the submissions. For the tax part, I have a very good German accountant with a very good knowledge of all the cross border rules. Everything is done through chartered accountants both in UK and Germany to avoid issues.

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