You can find plenty of tax advisors in the US. But you need someone who is also reasonably familiar with German tax law and can talk to your German tax advisor on an equal footing, for example, to clarify the strategy for license payments between companies and discuss the German-US double taxation agreement for your specific case.

In Europe, you have to use MOSS to settle VAT payments, whereas in the US, you have to keep a constant eye on sales tax thresholds. This is because there are a large number of areas with different thresholds and rules.

In other countries, such as India or Taiwan, however, your customers deduct a percentage of withholding as source tax from each invoice. You must obtain meticulous proof of this so that you can offset it later against your German corporate income tax.

In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

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I will write more about this in July/August – check back soon!

By the way: Nothing I write here constitutes legal advice within the meaning of the German Rechtsdienstleistungsgesetzes. The content has been compiled to the best of my knowledge. I am not a lawyer (but I know a few, if necessary).