Our Tax Accounting and Risk Advisory Services help clients safely navigate financial reporting and BEPS 2.0 Pillar Two, establish robust control frameworks, and manage the effective tax rate.

Carsten Harborth

EY Germany Tax Accounting and Risk Advisory Services Deputy Leader

Tax partner. 20+ years in consulting and auditing of multinational companies. Mountaineering enthusiast. Husband. Dog owner.

Carsten is the Tax Accounting and Risk Advisory Services (TARAS) Deputy Leader in Germany. He began his career with the global EY organization in the Frankfurt office over 20 years ago. He has extensive experience advising audit and non-audit clients globally on complex tax accounting and reporting topics, including acquisitions, dispositions, restructurings, IPOs, strategic planning, tax function performance and internal controls.

Living south of Munich, Carsten also serves as the Tax Account Leader for a major multinational industrial manufacturing client.

He holds a Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Bamberg, an MBA in International Taxation from the University of Freiburg, and is a certified German tax advisor.

How Carsten is building a better working world

“As a TARAS professional, I advise my clients on the digitalization and help optimization of their tax accounting and compliance processes in connection with a global tax function. I leverage my experience and the EY network to assemble the right team and organize an efficient, cost-optimized workflow in the record-to-report process around taxes. We emphasize the tax function as a business partner and part of the management. My goal is to make the tax function fit and risk-secure for the future in a digitalized environment.”

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