Steuern vom Einkommen und vom Ertrag

English translation: taxes on income; taxes on corporate income and business profits

08:07 Oct 9, 2001

German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Law: Taxation & Customs

German term or phrase: Steuern vom Einkommen und vom Ertrag

Is this the same as Einkommens -und Ertragssteuer - i.e. income and profits tax?

Sarah Downing KudoZ activity Questions: 624 (none open) Answers: 215
Local time: 10:24

English translation:taxes on income; taxes on corporate income and business profits

Explanation:
Basically the same; the first suggestion is the term used by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the second is from Schäfer "Wirtschaftswörterbuch"

Selected response from:

Robin Ward
Germany
Local time: 16:24

Grading comment

This ones a difficult one and to be quite honest, I think that both suggestions are probably correct. However, I'm going to go for this one. Thanks for everyone's help!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +1

income taxes

Andy Lemminger

taxes on income; taxes on corporate income and business profits

Robin Ward

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6 mins confidence:

taxes on income; taxes on corporate income and business profits

Explanation:
Basically the same; the first suggestion is the term used by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, the second is from Schäfer "Wirtschaftswörterbuch"

Translation of annual reports, also see above

Robin Ward
Germany
Local time: 16:24
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

This ones a difficult one and to be quite honest, I think that both suggestions are probably correct. However, I'm going to go for this one. Thanks for everyone's help!

10 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

income taxes

Explanation:
no need to differentiate between Ertrag and Einkommen for this term since it is a German concept

Professional Dictionary Accounting/Tax/Banking
own experience as former public accountant

Andy Lemminger
Canada
Local time: 08:24
Native speaker of:

German
PRO pts in category: 24

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