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The rules, side by side
Each tool states what English and German statute say for the same input, with the section numbers. What the rules mean for a particular case is a different question, and not one a calculator answers.
Employment
Statutory notice periods
§ 622 BGB counts months to a month-end, s. 86 ERA 1996 weeks to the day; the same dismissal can end months apart
Redundancy pay & severance
The ERA 1996 sum with the £751 week cap, against no statutory claim and the § 1a KSchG offer formula
Holiday entitlement
The English 28 with bank holidays inside, reg. 13A WTR, against the German 20 plus every public holiday, § 3 BUrlG
Money and interest
Late payment interest
Nine points over the Basiszins plus the flat €40, § 288 BGB, against eight over base with the tiered fixed sum
Judgment interest
8% frozen since 1993 against a rate that breathes with the Basiszins, and the £5,000 county-court line with its invoice exception
Courts
Court fees for a money claim
The 3.0 GKG fee up front against the banded issue fee capped at £10,000, and who recovers the lawyers differs more than the fees
Company
Transferring shares
Stamp duty at 0.5% against the notarial deed the GmbH share cannot live without, § 15 GmbHG; the price lines cross around 120,000
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