05.10.2019

WTS Austria wins two top-class new managing partners

International Tax, Research Premium and Mergers and Acquisitions field expands

WTS Austria strengthens its partnership with Dr. Wolfgang König and Mag. Paul Wette by acquiring INTAX International Tax Service Steuerberatungs GmbH & Co. KG. In their functions, they will in particular be responsible for and expand on the topics of subsidy consulting (research premium), international tax law, corporate tax law and mergers & acquisitions.

Dr. Wolfgang König has gained valuable experience and extensive knowledge in the areas of corporate law, corporate transactions, income taxation, reorganizations, international tax issues as well as tax research funding in his 20 years of consulting career at Siemens. In 2005, ITS International Steuerberatungs- und Buchhaltungsgesellschaft m.b.H was founded, in which he held the position of Managing Director. The company was renamed INTAX International Tax Service Steuerberatungs GmbH & Co. KG in 2016.In 2013, Paul Wette joined the company as managing director.

After being appointed as a tax consultant in 2005, Paul Wette joined the European tax team at Baxter Healthcare SA in Zurich in 2006. From 2008 to 2013, he was the Chief Financial Officer of BOP Immoholding GmbH.Throughout his career, Mr. Wette had acquired extensive expertise in corporate tax matters, real estate taxation, tax planning and structuring as well as M&A and financing transactions both domestically and abroad, transfer pricing, accounting, financial planning and reporting.

In August 2019, INTAX Steuerberatungs GmbH & Co KG became part of the WTS Austria Group and since then has been operating under the new name WTS-INTAX Steuerberatungs GmbH & Co KG. In this way, WTS Austria and WTS-INTAX go together to generate new expertise in order to be able to offer its clients even better services - within the WTS Global network. WTS-INTAX has extensive expertise in the fields of corporate and group taxation, corporate restructuring, international tax law and planning, cross-border social insurance, taxation of companies and individuals with foreign relations, research funding and real estate taxation.

Dr. Wolfgang König

Of Counsel

Certified Tax Consultant

Mag. Hermine Leitner

Senior Manager

Certified Tax Consultant

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