Melanie Junglas-Mummert runs the temporary employment agency Armon GmbH with her twin brother Dennis Junglas, based in Koblenz - and is fighting the economic consequences of the pandemic. Last year, 35 percent of sales dropped and the number of employees fell by a quarter. To make matters worse, says the 41-year-old, “we are also threatened with a steep inheritance tax back payment”. Now of all times, in times of a global crisis, an exemption rule for inheritance tax becomes an additional danger for some company successors. Economists and business associations see this as a major problem.
After Corona: family business threatens the inheritance tax
2021-02-10T07:27:58.089Z
Many entrepreneurs have to put a lot of reserves into the crisis to save their companies. But these measures bring an additional risk: additional tax payments. Paradoxically, the harder the crisis strikes, the higher these are. The resentment is great.
Source: welt