Tim Greenawalt (expats.global)
Updated January 26, 2026
Tim Greenawalt (or expats.global) is a German tax advisor in Hong Kong (?) who specializes in, among other things, the German exit tax. He has a YouTube channel where he publishes videos on the German exit tax.
Appointments for initial consultations can be booked online on the website.
Appointments for initial consultations can be booked online on the website.
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Tim Greenawalt (expats.global) review from November 28, 2025
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I became aware of expats.global or Tim Greenawalt via YouTube. In the videos, he seems to know his stuff well, so I scheduled an appointment for an initial consultation.
The firm probably seems to consist of only two people: Tim Greenawalt and his "assistant" Adrian Roth.
You can book the appointment for the initial consultation directly on the website, where there is a kind of Calendly calendar. The initial consultation is then with Adrian Roth by phone.
Before the call, I had sent them a few notes regarding my situation via email. Unfortunately, I received no reply to this, and during the initial consultation, it turned out that Adrian hadn't read any of it. The initial consultation was correspondingly inefficient, as I basically just read out everything from my notes while Adrian took notes (?).
Apart from that, the initial consultation started 6 minutes late, as I only received the call from Adrian then. Hm.
He then seemed to have a rather rigid catalogue of questions. The questions were partly sensible ("which country are you moving to?"), partly completely absurd, e.g. the question "what is your goal?" - well, my goal is to optimize my exit tax situation, that's why I'm talking to you here... oh man.
When I then asked about the prices, it got even more absurd. For one, they do not offer hourly-based consulting, but only consulting at a fixed price, which usually costs €40-50k (!). Thereupon, Adrian asked me directly: "Do you actually have that much money available right now as liquid funds?". That is quite intense (and somewhat brazen).
Generally, the process there seems to go like this:
The firm probably seems to consist of only two people: Tim Greenawalt and his "assistant" Adrian Roth.
You can book the appointment for the initial consultation directly on the website, where there is a kind of Calendly calendar. The initial consultation is then with Adrian Roth by phone.
Before the call, I had sent them a few notes regarding my situation via email. Unfortunately, I received no reply to this, and during the initial consultation, it turned out that Adrian hadn't read any of it. The initial consultation was correspondingly inefficient, as I basically just read out everything from my notes while Adrian took notes (?).
Apart from that, the initial consultation started 6 minutes late, as I only received the call from Adrian then. Hm.
He then seemed to have a rather rigid catalogue of questions. The questions were partly sensible ("which country are you moving to?"), partly completely absurd, e.g. the question "what is your goal?" - well, my goal is to optimize my exit tax situation, that's why I'm talking to you here... oh man.
When I then asked about the prices, it got even more absurd. For one, they do not offer hourly-based consulting, but only consulting at a fixed price, which usually costs €40-50k (!). Thereupon, Adrian asked me directly: "Do you actually have that much money available right now as liquid funds?". That is quite intense (and somewhat brazen).
Generally, the process there seems to go like this:
- Initial consultation with Adrian, in which you basically go through the general questions: Where are you moving, what kind of company shares do you have, etc. (and, exactly, "what is your goal?", etc.).
- Free two-hour consultation with Tim Greenawalt.
- You receive a fixed-price offer for the "implementation", which usually costs €40-50k.
At that point, and at the latest when asked about my "liquid funds", I ended the conversation.
In the end, I cannot judge the competence, as I never got to speak with a tax advisor here. Theoretically, the two-hour consultation would have been helpful for that, but at the same time, I got such a bad impression from the initial consultation that I didn't want to do that anymore.
Perhaps Tim Greenawalt is very competent - I don't know.
Regardless of that, the biggest risk here for me would be the financial risk of committing to working with the firm for a €40-50k fixed price and thus having few options to abort the process if one is dissatisfied with the performance. Well, you can of course abort the process, but in the worst case, you have already paid the fixed price.
In that regard, I find the hourly-based payment model of other tax advisors significantly better. Sure, the risk there is conversely that they bill many hours, but you can still abort the process if you notice that it's all not leading anywhere; and then you just don't have a bill amounting to €40-50k that you suddenly have to settle.
Cost / pricing model:
45000 (fixed price)
No, I would not recommend this tax advisor.