Fees of our Stuttgart Detective Agency

The Aaden Detectives Stuttgart are qualified professional investigators with many years of experience in the fields of corporate and private investigations. Most of our operatives have careers in public authorities such as the police, criminal investigation department, or intelligence services and therefore possess exceptional expertise. We place these qualities at the service of our clients with maximum motivation and are equally committed to presenting you with a fair fee structure.

 

Below you will find an overview of the costs of our basic services. Our detective agency fundamentally refrains from charging hidden additional fees. Information on fees for flat-rate investigations (for example vehicle owner identifications, address investigations, and others) is available upon request, as these flat rates are always based on the individually calculated workload.

The Fees in Detail

• Basic assignment fee:                               96.00 €
• Hourly rate per deployed investigator:      89.00 €
• Kilometer rate per kilometer driven:           1.50 €

All prices are gross (including statutory VAT) for private individuals and net for clients subject to value-added tax.

 

The calculation of kilometers is carried out either from our base in Stuttgart or, for more distant areas of operation, by individual agreement at favorable conditions, which we are able to offer due to our network of qualified local professional investigators.

 

The hourly fee is billed fairly in 15-minute increments.

Included Services

At Aaden Corporate Detective Agency, no additional fees apply; therefore, our fees include, among other things:

 

• Costs for the initial consultation and assignment discussion
• Costs for the provision of video and photographic material
• Telephone costs (excluding international calls)
• Costs for providing the necessary standard investigation technology (excluding surveillance vans, video surveillance systems, and GPS trackers)
• Postage costs (excluding express deliveries and international shipments)

 

No surcharges, which are common elsewhere, are charged for the following factors:

 

• Flat-rate expenses
• Catering costs
• Night operations
• Weekend operations
• Holiday operations (excluding Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day)

Free and Non-Binding Initial Consultation

As the saying goes, asking questions costs nothing – and at Aaden Corporate Detective Agency, this principle is a lived reality. Our professional detectives are happy to advise you free of charge and without obligation on any legitimate matter – by phone (+49 711 7153 011-0), by email (info@aaden-detektive-stuttgart.de), and/or in person at our office, at your home or company, or at a neutral location.

Reimbursability of Detective Costs

If detective operations serve to clarify a legally relevant matter and this matter could not be resolved by less intrusive means – which can generally be assumed when engaging a detective agency – the resulting costs are reimbursable. This means, for example, that an employer harmed by wage continuation fraud can recover the detective costs incurred in the legally admissible clarification of the fraud case from the employee responsible for the costs. The same applies to a mother who hires detectives to prove that the father has violated his duty of care in supervising the shared child.

 

As a general rule: The party responsible bears the costs. In court practice, this legal view is upheld with only a few exceptions. Accordingly, our clients must initially settle the invoices issued by us themselves, but they are often reimbursed by the responsible party afterward.

 

Among the various rulings that declare detective costs to be reimbursable as pre-litigation party expenses, provided they were necessary for legal prosecution or defense pursuant to Section 91 (1) of the German Code of Civil Procedure (ZPO), are, among others, case no. 14 NW 671/90 of the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz, case no. 8 WF 96/88 of the Higher Regional Court of Stuttgart (alimony dispute), case no. 13 T 97/99 of the Regional Court of Cologne (rental dispute), case no. W 1234/76 of the Higher Regional Court of Munich, and many more.

Especially of Interest to Companies:

"If the client of a detective agency is a business owner or freelancer, the invoice of a detective agency is generally tax-deductible as a business expense." (Hesse Fiscal Court, case no. 8 K 3370/88, EFG 89, p. 576)