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Your German VAT, handled. See it all in one English dashboard.

Registration, every return and every tax office (Finanzamt) letter, read and explained. Your part is the figures: copy last month, upload your sales report, or type them in. A licensed German tax advisor reviews and files each German return; the same team files your French ones.

OnceOne guided setup, then we file
3 waysCopy, upload, or type your figures
In-houseFiled by a licensed advisor
Registered with the chamber of tax advisors (Steuerberaterkammer) Rheinland-Pfalz. A service of FRADECO GmbH, licensed German tax advisory, filing for international sellers since 2021.

What happens after you sign up, in under two minutes.

The real dashboard, shown with an example company and test data. 1:41.

Step 01 · Registration

Get a German tax number without the paperwork pain.

One guided form in English. We prepare the tax registration questionnaire (Fragebogen) and your mandates. The tax office issues your tax number (Steuernummer), typically in 4 to 8 weeks; you see where it stands.

Drag-and-drop uploadsArticles of association, passport, marketplace turnover, as PDF, JPG or CSV up to 25 MB each.
Pre-filled mandatesPower of attorney and SEPA mandate drafted from your registration data. You sign once; we file with the tax office.
vaytax.com/register · Step 4 of 7
Upload supporting documentsWe need three files to file the registration form for you.
Drop files here or click to browse
Articles_of_association.pdf2.1 MB
Passport_director.pdf410 KB
Amazon_DE_2025_turnover.csv22 KB
Questionnaire filed · 18 Jun Tax office processingWaiting on the tax office Tax number, typically 4 to 8 weeks after filing
Step 02 · Filing · your part

Your part of the monthly return: minutes, not hours.

Upload your sales report, copy last month forward, or type the figures in. You confirm; we review and file.

Upload your sales reportAmazon, Shopify, easybill, lexoffice, sevDesk or any DATEV export. We read every line and draft the figures; you review and confirm. How to pull it: the Amazon VAT report, easybill, Shopify orders.
Already have a bookkeeper? Keep them.If your books export in DATEV format, we read it. Nothing about your bookkeeping changes.
app.vaytax.com/returns/2026-10
October 2026 · UStVAWaiting on you
Upload reportCopy SeptemberType figures
amazon-vat-transactions-2026-10.csvReconciled
Sales at 19 %42,180.00
Sales at 7 %15,903.40
Input VAT-2,471.59
VAT due · updates as you go€ 6,655.85Confirm by Thu 5 Nov. We review and file.
Step 03 · Review and filing · our part

Checked, filed by a licensed advisor, receipt in seconds.

Checked automatically, then filed by a licensed German tax advisor straight into ELSTER, the tax office’s filing system, over our own connection. The receipt sits on the return. On Pro, a person also compares it with your upload.

Checked before it leavesELSTER's own checks run on your return before we send it, so errors are caught before the Finanzamt sees them.
The official receiptThe moment we send, ELSTER answers with its receipt number. It sits on the return in your dashboard.
app.vaytax.com/returns/2026-08
August 2026 · UStVADelivered
You confirmed your figures5 Sep, 09:14
Automatic check passedELSTER validation, 0 issues
Reviewed and filed by your tax advisor7 Sep, 11:02 · in-house, FRADECO
ELSTER receipt received7 Sep, 11:02 · Transferticket 7a3f…c21e
Filing receipt (PDF)Download
Step 04 · Letters

Every Finanzamt letter, read and explained, deadline named.

We are your authorised recipient in Germany. Every letter lands in your dashboard with what it says, what it means and what to do, in plain English.

Original and explanation side by sideThe scanned letter, the letter type, an English rendering and every deadline it names.
Objection deadlines watchedOn Pro you get a warning before an objection deadline on an assessment notice (Bescheid) runs out.
app.vaytax.com/letters
Finanzamt Neubrandenburg · 2 OctRequest for one invoice behind your August returnThe office wants the invoice behind line KZ 66. Upload it by 23 Oct and we send the reply.Deadline 30 Oct · Type: Request (Anfrage) · Status: Waiting on you
Finanzamt Neubrandenburg · 12 AugYour tax number (Steuernummer) has been issuedRegistration complete. Monthly returns start with July.No deadline · Type: Bescheid · Delivered
Finanzamt Neubrandenburg · 3 JulConfirmation of your power of attorneyNo deadline · Delivered
Step 05 · Cases

Every job outside your returns has its own case.

Past returns, a reply to the tax office, a change of address: each is a case with a plain status, our quote and every message in one place. You always see who is on it: us, you or the tax office.

Quoted before work startsOne page: scope, then one total. Paid before work starts, no surprises after.
Four status wordsWaiting on you, In progress, Waiting on the tax office, Delivered. One line on what happens next.
app.vaytax.com/cases
Cases · Example Trading Ltd
1On us
1On you
1Tax office
Two past returns (May, June)Waiting on you
We need your Amazon VAT report for June. Quote €198 accepted 22 Sep.
Filing extension (Dauerfristverlängerung)Waiting on the tax office
Filed 18 Sep. Nothing needed from you.
Reply to a letter from the tax officeIn progress
Quote €400 accepted 1 Oct. We are working on it.
Change of address at the tax officeDelivered
Opened 3 Sep · delivered 24 Sep.
Step 06 · Documents

Everything the tax office has ever seen from you, in one place.

Registration papers, mandates, every filing receipt and every letter, grouped and downloadable. Your accountant can be copied on every email we send.

Grouped by jobRegistration, returns and letters each have their own tab.
Receipts you can hand overEvery ELSTER receipt as a PDF, named by period, ready for your bank or your accountant.
app.vaytax.com/documents
AllRegistrationReturnsLetters
PDFUStVA_2026-08_receipt.pdf7 Sep 2026
PDFZM_2026-08_receipt.pdf7 Sep 2026
PDFSteuernummer_Bescheid.pdf12 Aug 2026
PDFVollmacht_signed.pdf14 Jun 2026
CSVamazon-vat-transactions-2026-08.csv5 Sep 2026
Step 07 · One-Stop-Shop

Selling to consumers across the EU? OSS is one return, filed from the same account.

Shipping from your German stock to consumers in other EU countries? The One-Stop-Shop (OSS) is one quarterly return for every EU country, filed through Germany. For a company established outside the EU it starts with your first cross-border sale. We register you and file it. Add-on: €300 one-time, €200 a quarter.

One quarterly returnEvery destination country and rate on one page, from the same sales report you already upload.
Registered through the BZStWe handle the OSS registration with the Federal Central Tax Office and the quarterly filings after it.
app.vaytax.com/oss/2026-q3
OSS · Q3 2026Delivered
France20 %4,120.00824.00
Italy22 %2,980.50655.71
Spain21 %1,760.00369.60
Netherlands21 %940.00197.40
OSS VAT due, all countries€ 2,046.71
Urgent · Finanzamt letter

Got a letter from the Finanzamt? Read it free. Then have it handled.

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).

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Free PDF · Every country
The exact documents you need, by country
A per-country checklist of what the Finanzamt needs to register you for German VAT. Printable, free.
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€1,299 a year for Germany, German registration and every filing included. Already registered: from €99 a month. A person replies within 24 hours on weekdays.

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