Birgit Jürgensmann Partner
Qualification
Lawyer, Tax Advisor, Specialist Lawyer for Tax Law
Areas of expertise
Special sector knowledge
- Automotive industry
- Energy, infrastructure & environment
- Industrials
- Transport & logistics
Languages
- German
- English
- French
Brief biography
- Since 2014 Forvis Mazars (formerly Mazars)
- 2006 – 2013 Partner at Deloitte & Touche GmbH
- 2000 – 2006 Manager / Senior Manager / Director at KPMG Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft
- 1995 – 1999 Assistant / Senior Assistant and Consultant at Arthur Andersen GmbH
- Traineeship at the District court of Hannover and at the Arthur Andersen GmbH
- Law Student at the University of Osnabrück and Hamburg
Profile
Birgit Jürgensmann has been professionally focused on indirect taxes since more than 20 years. She advises companies and industries of different sizes on queries involving international and national turnover taxes (e.g. turnover tax risk management strategies, defense strategies regarding tax audits, Due Diligence and Business Model Optimization regarding value added taxes (VAT).
Birgit Jürgensmann sees herself as an intermediary between companies and their usually complex (value added) tax requirements. She is always focused on feasible solutions. Furthermore, she gained intercultural expertise during her stay abroad and long-standing consultancies with an international orientation. Birgit Jürgensmann is a frequent speaker at national and international events. Additionally, she is an (co-)author of various publications regarding value added taxes law.
Participation in professional bodies of the profession and other functions
- UmsatzsteuerForum e.V.
- Working Group VAT of Institute of German Certified Public Accounts
Publications
- “E-Invoicing as a means to tackle tax fraud”, special edition of IStR on the occasion of the Global IFA Conference 2023 in Cancun
- “Aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben” – article in DATEV-Magazin February 2024 regarding the implementation of e-invoicing
- Co-Author „CBAM – Status quo und Ausblick für Unternehmen mit Weitsicht“ - Econic
- Board Briefing: „Die E-Rechnung wird Pflicht“
- Co-author „Vermögensverwaltende Personengesellschaften“, Haase/Dorn, Beck-Verlag
- Co-author „Geistiges Eigentum im Steuerrecht“, Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt
- Co-author Bulletin BCCG “Guide to Doing Business in the UK an Germany 2017”
- Yearbook 2017/2018 BCCG: “Umsatzsteuerliche und zollrechtliche Aspekte, die Unternehmen kennen sollten.“