Christoph Heuermann (staatenlos.ch)
Updated January 26, 2026
Christoph Heuermann is relatively well-known among people who want to emigrate from Germany through his website staatenlos.ch. He is not a tax advisor, but specializes in emigration in general. Staatenlos offers, for example, support for US LLCs as a business structure.
In addition, he also offers advice on exit tax, among other things.
His pricing model can be summarized as follows:
In addition, he also offers advice on exit tax, among other things.
His pricing model can be summarized as follows:
- First question (via Telegram chat): Free
- 5 subsequent questions: €500 (!)
- 1 hour consultation via video call: €2,400 (!)
Payment is made online via PayPal; an invoice can even be issued upon request.
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Christoph Heuermann (staatenlos.ch) review from November 28, 2025
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I found Christoph Heuermann via a YouTube video in which he talks about exit tax together with Christoph Juhn. He sounded relatively pragmatic there, e.g., he mentioned that people would simply set up a foreign company after moving away and then gradually shift revenue there. Juhn viewed this relatively critically, among other things, because this would be a transfer of functions. However, the pragmatic approach was interesting.
The pricing model of Christoph Heuermann or staatenlos.ch is such that you can ask one question for free via Telegram, which he answers in a voice message. After that, you pay €500 for 5 further questions, or €2,400 for a one-hour consultation.
These are extremely high prices - I can hardly imagine people paying that, especially since he is more expensive than "real" tax advisors. And that is exactly the point - in the end, he is not a tax advisor, meaning I suspect that he himself has interacted little to not at all with the tax office so far. Furthermore, he hasn't lived in Germany for many years, so it is questionable whether he himself has ever had to deal directly with exit tax (I suspect not).
The solution he mentions frequently on his website is establishing a cooperative and transferring the company or GmbH shares into this cooperative. At the same time, however, he says restrictively that he hasn't implemented the model himself yet. For me, this actually makes the entire idea with the cooperative invalid, since there is factually no person so far who has implemented it just like that.
The pricing model of Christoph Heuermann or staatenlos.ch is such that you can ask one question for free via Telegram, which he answers in a voice message. After that, you pay €500 for 5 further questions, or €2,400 for a one-hour consultation.
These are extremely high prices - I can hardly imagine people paying that, especially since he is more expensive than "real" tax advisors. And that is exactly the point - in the end, he is not a tax advisor, meaning I suspect that he himself has interacted little to not at all with the tax office so far. Furthermore, he hasn't lived in Germany for many years, so it is questionable whether he himself has ever had to deal directly with exit tax (I suspect not).
The solution he mentions frequently on his website is establishing a cooperative and transferring the company or GmbH shares into this cooperative. At the same time, however, he says restrictively that he hasn't implemented the model himself yet. For me, this actually makes the entire idea with the cooperative invalid, since there is factually no person so far who has implemented it just like that.
Consulting
Back to the question I asked him via Telegram - in the end, I asked him what he would do in my situation. For context here, roughly my personal situation: Operational German GmbH, which I own via a Holding GmbH; additionally, shareholdings >1% in foreign corporations.
Generally, I asked which of the common options he would prefer, i.e., pay exit tax or establish a GmbH & Co. KG or a cooperative.
His answer:
Generally, I asked which of the common options he would prefer, i.e., pay exit tax or establish a GmbH & Co. KG or a cooperative.
His answer:
- GmbH & Co. KG makes little sense, since one would then still be subject to German tax liability (precisely with the GmbH & Co. KG).
- Better options would be either to pay the exit tax (if the valuation is low) or to bring the company into a cooperative so that it would then no longer be covered by the exit tax (I have described this in more detail here).
And that was it, more was logically not possible, since I was only allowed to ask him one free question and the other consultation packages were far too expensive for me - €500 for 5 further questions would probably bring me little benefit and €2,400 for a one-hour consultation would be far too expensive.
Now, after I have meanwhile discussed the options mentioned by him with a few other tax advisors, I can roughly classify how sensible the individual points are or how competent (or incompetent) he is here:
- GmbH & Co. KG is, contrary to what he says, in many cases the only solution that leads to not having to pay exit tax with relatively little effort and cost. He is right that one must then continue to pay German taxes on earnings within the GmbH & Co. KG, but that is exactly the point - one shows the tax office that one wants to continue taxing the income from one's companies in Germany and in return, one pays no exit tax.
And the much bigger point here is that after moving away, one potentially has the option to build up further entrepreneurial activities abroad in foreign companies, which are then no longer taxed in Germany.
I missed these aspects in his consultation - and I therefore assume a little bit that he unfortunately doesn't have too much knowledge about the topic of exit tax generally. - I looked at the solution with the cooperative again in detail later and also spoke with his recommended "cooperative consultant". I got the impression that the model simply does not work or cannot work. Basically, it is based on founding a cooperative (for this, you need two additional people who are there as passive members without voting rights – difficult, but doable) and then bringing in your company via a "qualified exchange of shares". According to my research, the latter is simply not possible with a cooperative, since one receives cooperative shares for one's company shares here, which are likely worth much less. I have described all of this separately here.
Additionally, there seems to be no person (or they don't want to name anyone to me) who has successfully implemented this cooperative solution upon moving away. Christoph Heuermann certainly hasn't. So all in all, I am very, very skeptical.
And then one must also be aware that both Christoph Heuermann and the cooperative consultant are not tax advisors, although both offer quasi tax advice. There are certainly competent people outside the profession of tax advisors who know their way around exit tax - but the bigger problem here is probably that they have never been present during the actual implementation of their recommended exit tax solutions and probably also never had to interact with the tax office regarding inquiries.
Even if I sometimes find Staatenlos interesting as a website (albeit somewhat extreme), I would therefore not recommend their advice regarding German exit tax. In my opinion, it would be better to speak with a few German tax advisors and familiarize yourself with the topic (like with this website!).
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No, I would not recommend this tax advisor.