With all respect: Why do you blame the company for offering the S690 to the employees ?
Everybody knew that this is a legal tax alleviation (!) only and that the final tax liability is up to the individual.
The S690 is a deal between yourself and the IR.
The company only does the paperwork.
You pay less tax initially because you seem to spend only part of your work
in the UK. So the IR is so generous and asks for less tax initially, giving you
a "interest-free" credit initially.
Everybody knows, that there is a "final bill" (tax-declaration) to be done in each year. Or in other words: That is not my final liability!
Only because Germany didnīt want to tax the so far untaxed part of the income NOBODY could assume forever that this would be written in stone!
To be honest, you HAD to expect that this great opportunity would end one day and if you were 5cents clever, you would have kept the tax return for each previous year until the German authorities answered "No, donīt want anything" after your German tax declaration.
Taking the cash all, spending it for different things and now, as you have to pay tax as (almost) everybody else on this planet you are disappointed by the company ?
If you all were so naive to think that this would work (legally) forever, your fault!
