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Jan-Philipp Jansen, LL.M.
Jan-Philipp Jansen, LL.M.

Jan-Philipp Jansen, LL.M.

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Jan-Philipp is an associate in the Tax practice group in the Düsseldorf office. He specializes in providing tax advice to family businesses, entrepreneurial families, private individuals and their family offices and foundations. He focuses on the conception of tax and succession planning as well as structural advice on transactions and corporate reorganizations.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Tax
Private client
Private investment & family owned businesses
Wills and succession planning
Private client tax
Tax, tax risk and tax planning
Corporate tax/M&A tax structuring/Taxation on transactions
Trusts (contentious and non-contentious) and foundations
Tax disputes

Sectors

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CV

Since 2025 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2025 Admission to the bar
2024 Second state examination in law, Düsseldorf
Since 2024 PhD candidate in law (Dr. iur) on a topic of inheritance law
2023 Master of Laws (LL.M.), business and tax law
2019 First state examination in law, Cologne
2014 - 2019 Legal studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and University of Warsaw

Career

Since 2025 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

2025 Admission to the bar
2024 Second state examination in law, Düsseldorf
Since 2024 PhD candidate in law (Dr. iur) on a topic of inheritance law
2023 Master of Laws (LL.M.), business and tax law
2019 First state examination in law, Cologne
2014 - 2019 Legal studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and University of Warsaw

Publications

Nachweis der fehlenden Unentgeltlichkeit durch den Testamentsvollstrecker sowie unentgeltliche Verfügung über Nachlassgegenstände bei Zustimmung der Erben sowie Vermächtnisnehmer, in: ZErb 2026, 31

BFH: Anwendung der Erbschaftsteuerbegünstigung auf einen fiktiven Nießbrauch nach § 29 Abs. 2 ErbStG, in: ZErb 2025, 414  (gemeinsam mit Dr. Philipp Weiten)

Steuerbegünstigung bei widerrufenen Schenkungen? (gemeinsam mit Weiten), in: Der Betrieb, Steuerboard, 28.08.2025

Droht der Erbschaftsteuer ein drittes Aus?, in private banking magazin, 06/2025 (together with Weiten)

Vorsicht bei Umstrukturierungen nach vollzogener Unternehmensnachfolge, in: DER BETRIEB Steuerboard 27.04.2025

Bemessung der Schenkungsteuer bei niedrig verzinsten Darlehen (together with Weiten), in: ZErb 2025, 96

(Ausländische) Lebensgemeinschaften im Steuerrecht in: NZFam 2023, 385

Die erbschaft- und schenkungsteuerliche Befreiung des Familienheims - Jüngere Rechtsprechung und verfassungsrechtliche Würdigung (together with Münch) in: ZEV 2023, 717

Änderung des ErbStG im Entwurf des Jahressteuergesetzes 2020 (together with Holtz) in: Steueranwaltsmagazin 2020, 136

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