Vaytax is the closest functional replacement for Taxdoo's German service: a licensed German tax advisor, fixed €99/month, English self-service. Engagement letter in your inbox within 48 hours, your next filing in our pipeline before its deadline. Switching is a power-of-attorney handover, not a re-registration, so your Tax ID never changes.
The short version
Taxdoo discontinued VAT compliance on 30 April 2026. Since May 2026, Taxdoo has not filed VAT returns, maintained accounting exports, or handled tax-office correspondence. If you switched providers back in spring, this page is the handover plan. If nobody has filed for you since April, see the catch-up section below first.
Your Tax ID is safe. It belongs to your company, not to Taxdoo. Migration is a power-of-attorney handover (Vollmachtswechsel), not a re-registration. There is no gap in your tax registration if the handover is timely.
Vaytax takes over for €99/month. A licensed German tax advisor reviews and signs every filing, submitted via the Finanzamt, the same channel your Taxdoo exports were built for. Engagement letter and Vollmacht in your inbox within 48 hours of registering.
Need to track every 2026 deadline yourself during the cutover? Get the printable VAT calendar → · Want to estimate your monthly VAT return? Use the VAT calculator →
Nobody filed since April?
Every monthly return since May 2026 that nobody filed is now overdue. The Finanzamt can charge a late-filing penalty (Verspätungszuschlag) of 0.25% of the assessed VAT per started month of delay, minimum €25 per started month, up to €25,000 per return. Stay silent long enough and it can also estimate your VAT for you in an estimated assessment (Schätzbescheid), usually higher than reality, and enforceable.
Catching up is one signup, not a project. We take over your filings at €99/month, and the checkout names each overdue return and adds it at €99 per past return, one late quarter is one return. You upload the same reports you always downloaded; a licensed German tax advisor prepares and files the backlog and everything after it.
Already received a letter from the Finanzamt about a missed return? Get a free plain-English read of it first → · More detail: what happens to unfiled returns →
A clean handover from Taxdoo to Vaytax takes 1–2 weeks. No re-registration, no gap, your Tax ID stays the same. Here is the path.
You start your Vaytax registration. The engagement letter and Vollmacht (power of attorney) appear in your inbox within 48 hours. You sign electronically, no printer, no scan.
From Taxdoo, request the last 12 months of VAT return + ZM filings (PDFs), the latest annual VAT return (Jahreserklärung) if filed, an accounting export covering 1 January 2026 to handover, any open tax-office correspondence, and confirmation that they've terminated their Vollmacht. Start this on day 1: the service has been wound down since April 2026, so data requests can take time to answer.
We file the new Vollmacht. Your assigned Finanzamt processes the Vollmachtswechsel and routes future correspondence and filing access to us. The Tax ID is unchanged.
You enter the month's sales totals into the Vaytax dashboard (typically about 5 minutes: totals per VAT rate, EU acquisitions, reverse-charge supplies). You can also paste in your Amazon or Shopify monthly export directly.
A licensed German tax advisor reviews and signs the return. We file with the Finanzamt and send you the filing confirmation (Übermittlungsprotokoll) plus the accounting export. Your migration is verified clean.
The report you already download each month is all we need. Upload the same Amazon VAT Transactions Report (or easybill export) you used with your previous provider; we read every line, you review the figures, and your German filings continue without a gap.
See what we read from your report before you switch: try the free Amazon VAT calculator, read on your device, nothing uploaded. It is a draft, subject to our review.
You picked Taxdoo for the licensed advisor, fixed pricing, and English self-service. Vaytax delivers all three, and adds a named tax advisor on every return.
The same professional infrastructure Taxdoo's exports were built for. Every VAT return reviewed, signed, and submitted to the Finanzamt by a licensed German Steuerberater. No re-architecture: your transition is invisible to the tax office.
Reviewed and signed by a licensed German tax advisor (Steuerberaterkammer Rheinland-Pfalz), not an anonymous partner-network handoff. A real team you can email and reach.
Annual VAT declaration, EU ZM, and all routine tax-office correspondence are included. No surcharge by transaction count. Cancel anytime; notice runs to the end of the following month.
The same self-service experience you had with Taxdoo, in English. Email contact@vaytax.com in English, German, or French; replies come from the same team handling your file.
Every VAT return versioned per period, built for §153 AO Berichtigungen (corrections). When you re-file, the prior version is preserved with a clean supersedes link. No silent overwrites.
Each registration is reviewed personally. Registering now triggers the engagement letter and Vollmacht in your inbox within 48 hours, so your next return stays on track.
By category, not by name. Pick the model that fits how you sell into Germany.
| Vaytax | Online VAT platforms | Traditional tax advisor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germany model | Germany and France, in-house | Multi-country software layer | Single-firm engagement |
| Pricing | €99/month, fixed | Tiered, often + per-filing fees | Hourly or retainer |
| Licensed tax advisor named on filings | Yes, in-house team | Often a partner network | Yes |
| English dashboard + self-service | Yes | Yes | Often German-only |
| Routine tax-office correspondence included | Yes | Tier-dependent | Yes |
| Multi-country coverage | Germany & France | EU-wide | Germany only |
| Cancellation | End of next month | Tier-dependent | Notice period varies |
Pan-EU sellers who file in three or more countries may want a multi-country platform for the bundle. Sellers whose risk sits in Germany or France, including Pan-EU FBA sellers whose primary exposure is the German registration, are typically better served by a specialist in those two countries.
For the full provider-by-provider analysis, see our Taxdoo Alternatives 2026 guide.
No per-transaction surcharge. The price you see covers your routine recurring filings; one-off work like backfiling or disputes is always quoted up front.
Already registered · Path B
You already hold a German VAT number with Taxdoo. Move straight into monthly filing, no registration fee. €1,099/year if you pay annually (about €91/month).
What's included
Need a fresh registration · Path A
If you also need a fresh German VAT registration, this annual all-in bundles the registration plus all routine filings. Charged in full at signup. Renews yearly.
German VAT registration included. Charged at signup.
Provider handovers cover the go-forward monthly filings. The annual reconciliation of the year you leave behind is where migrations quietly fail.
Your monthly UStVAs may have moved cleanly, but the Umsatzsteuerjahreserklärung for 2025 belongs to nobody unless a provider takes it on in writing. Filed by yourself, the 2025 annual return is due 31 July 2026, and a year that stays open eventually draws a late-filing surcharge or an estimated assessment.
The annual return is part of every Vaytax filing plan from tax year 2026 onward. Past years such as 2025 can be added for €599 one-time per tax year, booked from your dashboard. And because a licensed tax advisor files it, your 2025 deadline extends automatically from 31 July 2026 to 1 March 2027 (§149(3) AO).
The Taxdoo migration is when providers will quote attractively then surface fees later. Get these answers in writing.
"Is a licensed German tax advisor named on my filings, and are they a member of a Steuerberaterkammer?"
The answer should be a name and a Kammer. An anonymous "partner network" is a yellow flag: you want to know exactly who signs your return.
"What is the all-in monthly cost for Germany, in writing, with no per-transaction surcharges?"
Get it in the engagement letter. Quote-based pricing during migration season often surfaces tier upgrades after onboarding.
"Is tax-office correspondence included? How are audits or queries billed?"
This is where multi-country platforms tend to bill separately at €150–200/hour. Get the boundary in writing.
"What is the cancellation notice period? Any auto-renewal?"
Watch for 12-month auto-renewal clauses. Vaytax cancels at the end of the following month with no auto-renewal.
"Can you commit to filing my next VAT return by its deadline, in writing?"
If they can't commit to a date in writing, they don't have capacity. Move on.
Free instant English read, no signup. Then a fixed price from €200 net, nothing to pay until you accept. Estimated assessment (Schätzbescheid), payment reminder (Mahnung), formal hearing notice (Anhörung). A licensed German tax advisor reviews your case.
No. The Tax ID and USt-IdNr. are tied to your company entity, not to Taxdoo. Switching is a power-of-attorney handover (Vollmachtswechsel), not a re-registration. There is no gap in your tax registration.
It happens. Start the request on day 1 of your migration. We can begin onboarding (Mandatsvereinbarung, Vollmacht) without your full Taxdoo handover pack. Your historical filings are useful for context but not strictly required for your first return with us, which we prepare from your direct turnover data.
Yes. The clean cut-over was: Taxdoo files your last reporting period (April 2026), the new provider files from May 2026 onward. If you are switching later and months in between went unfiled, we file those too: at signup the checkout names each overdue return and adds it at €99 per past return, then your subscription covers everything from the current month on. No period stays uncovered either way.
Yes. Dauerfristverlängerung sits with your company at the tax office, it's not tied to Taxdoo. The 1/11 deposit you've paid is on file with the tax office; the new tax advisor files under the same extension. No re-application.
ZM is included in Vaytax's €99/month. If you have intra-EU B2B supplies (Pan-EU FBA cross-border movements, B2B sales to other EU countries), we file the monthly ZM alongside the VAT return. No separate charge.
Annual returns are part of every Vaytax plan from tax year 2026 onward. The 2025 annual return that Taxdoo would have handled is now your responsibility; Vaytax takes it on for €599 one-time as a past-year filing. Filed by yourself it is due 31 July 2026; filed by a licensed tax advisor the deadline extends automatically to 1 March 2027 (§149(3) AO). How the annual return works →
For the calendar month of the cut-over, you may. Taxdoo's last billable month is typically April (the period they file before exiting). Vaytax billing starts the month we file your first return. Total double-billed period: typically zero, occasionally one month.
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Answer a few quick questions about how and where you sell. We will tell you whether you simply hand over your existing number or need a fresh registration, and what it costs, in plain English. No account, no obligation.
Register now. Engagement letter and Vollmacht in your inbox within 48 hours, your May filing in our pipeline by early June. Reviewed June 2026 by a licensed German tax advisor.
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