Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Germany
Heinz-Klaus Kroppen
Deloitte
Schwannstrasse 6
40476 Düsseldorf
Germany
Tel: (49) 211 8772 2241
Fax: (49) 211 8772 2280
Email: hkroppen@deloitte.de
Website: www.deloitte.de
Professor Dr Heinz-Klaus Kroppen is a partner of the international tax department of
Deloitte & Touche in Düsseldorf. He is the head of Deloitte’s European and German
transfer-pricing practice. His work focuses exclusively on international matters, mainly
cross-border transactions, acquisitions and multinational corporations’ tax issues.
Professor Kroppen has been selected several times for inclusion in the Guide to the
World’s Leading Tax Advisers and the Guide to the World’s Leading Transfer Pricing Advisers,
published in conjunction with International Tax Review.
Professor Kroppen is editor and co-author of the leading German publication on
transfer pricing. He is also co-author of the German chapter in the IBFD loose-leaf
publication The Tax Treatment of Transfer Pricing, and in Robert Feinschreiber’s book,
Transfer Pricing International. Professor Kroppen is also editor and co-author of a
leading German publication on double-taxation treaties and co-author of the leading
German personal and corporate income tax commentary.
He is a member of the tax board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany.
He is a professor of international tax law at the Ruhr University in Bochum and has
been appointed to the EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum by the EU Commission as
one of 10 business experts in Europe.
Professor Kroppen studied law at the universities of Kiel, Hamburg, and Cologne, and
later clerked at the German Tax Court in Düsseldorf and at the German/Korean
Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Seoul. During this time, he wrote a
dissertation on company and tax law problems for which he was awarded his PhD in
law. Professor Kroppen later attended Georgetown University Law School,
Washington DC, receiving an LLM in international law.
Professor Kroppen is a lawyer (Rechtsanwalt) and a member of the Düsseldorf Bar. He
is also a licensed tax adviser (Steuerberater).
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