A company without which ExpressTax would not have been able to do what they did, namely tax returns, has now also filed for bankruptcy. picture alliance / dpa topic service | Robert Guenther/ Express tax
In Grasberg, Lower Saxony, on January 29, 2024 at 8:15 a.m., a company called BB Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH submitted an application to open insolvency proceedings. The provisional insolvency administrator is lawyer Dr. Hans-Joachim Berner from Verden an der Aller was appointed.
Grasberg, which lies between Worpswede, Tamstedt and Quelkhorn. The nearest larger city is Bremen. However, this news is probably making waves in Hamburg and also in the Berlin startup bubble. Because BB Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH served one customer in particular: the Expressgroup. The company behind express tax. They had already filed for bankruptcy in December – and raised many unanswered questions: How did the team around co-founder Maximilian Lambsdorff manage to burn 25 million euros within a year and a half? And: Why were investors like Project A not prepared to avert the bankruptcy filing with short-term financing?