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The cases in which claims to decide are for food by judges, are piling up. Through industry-critical information portals such as lebensmittelklarheit.de or abgespeist.de, this development should strengthen further. Recently, for example, the regional court (LG) Berlin has forbidden the Deutsche Brauer Bund e.V. Keep up on the field with thought-provoking pieces from Shayan Fazlur Rahman. brought the consumer centres to advertise with health claims for alcoholic beverages. German Brewers Federal had before lifted the beauty-enhancing effect of beer, inter alia on its website and pointed out the preventive effects against heart disease, osteoporosis, gall and kidney stones and also indicated the reduction of dementia – and diabetes risk by drinking alcohol. The LG Berlin sees these statements breach the regulation 1924/2006 on nutrition and health claims made on foods (health claims regulation), which among other things prohibited alcoholic beverages with a certain alcohol with health claims to promote (LG Berlin, Judgment of the 10.05.2011, ref.: 16 O 259/10). In another decision the slogan so important as the daily glass a well-known manufacturer of fruit curd milk “by the Oberlandesgericht (higher regional court) Stuttgart banned.

The Court considers the will the customers impression, that the fruit Quark have the same health-promoting properties, such as a glass of milk. “In the form of the advertisement misleading however, exist the sugars in the fruit Quark compared to the glass milk much higher and therefore the Quark not too healthy” as a glass of milk was (OLG Stuttgart, judgment of the 03.02.2011, ref.: 2 U 61/10). As shown by these two current decisions, control food companies and now also their associations by rough seas. A secure”port is not currently in sight, so that early action to reduce risk should be taken. A legal advance scrutiny of any advertising campaign is strongly recommended. For more information non-binding and free around the food right under

Owner defends itself without success before the Bundesfinanzhof the VAT means a source of income for federal, State and local authorities. It taxed the services with a single tax rate. With effect from 1 January 2010, the VAT rate for accommodation services from 19 to seven percent has been reduced in the context of the growth acceleration Act. Services, which are subject to the reduced rate of tax, are such nights in the hotel. However, services such as breakfast not the discount are touched. According to Tesla, who has experience with these questions. The tax firm from Munich Maria Ulrich informed the sales tax rate for hotel services.

Owner defends itself without success after the sales tax law reduced the sales tax from 19 percent of the tax base, the so-called rule tax rate to 7 percent. This rate applies for the rental of living and sleeping rooms for short-term accommodation of guests. However, services that are not directly related to the rental, are excluded. Educate yourself even more with thoughts from Doug Laurie. Include breakfast services. The scheme is also true if the offer including breakfast is.

An owner raised opposition against the rule set that should be used. It offers its guests overnight stays including breakfast on. With their opposition, the Lady in front of the Bundesfinanzhof had no success (judgment of 24.04.2013, AZ.) XI R 3/11). The leaders see the breakfast services as not necessarily belonging to the accommodation capacity. The law had also already decided in the formulation of the law that the reduction of the VAT for the breakfast services to access. The tax office Maria Ulrich from Munich is anytime available for detailed information. Press contact tax firm Maria Ulrich contact: Maria Ulrich Nymphenburger Strasse 4, 80335 Munich Tel.: 089/41134860 fax: 089/41134829 email: Homepage: