Product updates
What has changed in the service: new ways to get your figures in, new reports we can read, and improvements to how your German VAT return reaches the Finanzamt.
We only list changes that affect what you can do. Fixes and behind-the-scenes work are not here, and neither is anything that changes what you pay, which we would always tell you directly.
Shopify sellers can upload their orders export
If you sell through Shopify, you no longer need to type your totals. Export your orders for the filing period (Orders → Export, as a CSV file) and upload the file as it is. We place each order in the month it was delivered, show your German figures, list your sales to consumers elsewhere in the EU per country for the One-Stop-Shop (OSS), flag exports that need proof of export, and set aside anything unclear for you to confirm. Nothing is filed until you confirm the figures. Selling on Amazon as well? Upload both reports for the same period: every channel goes on one return.
Every job outside your returns now has its own case
When you book work beyond your monthly or quarterly returns (past returns, a reply to the tax office, a change of address, advice), it now opens as a case in your account. Each case says in plain words where it stands: waiting on you, in progress, waiting on the tax office, or delivered, with one line on what happens next and what, if anything, we need from you. The quote, the items it covers, our messages and the documents for that job stay together in the case. When you reply to one of our emails, your reply lands in the same case or conversation in your account.
Basic is now Standard, and every plan reads your letters
The plan that was called Basic is now Standard. On every plan, each letter from the tax office is now read and explained in plain English in your account, with its deadline named, and you can add your accountant in copy on your notifications. Pro now covers four advisor hours a year as one block across Germany and France, five corrections a year, a named contact who replies within 24 hours on working days, and valuation of stock moved between EU warehouses from your price list. Clients on Standard or Classic can move to Pro from Billing in your account. Existing clients keep their plan, price and terms unchanged.
Two plans: Basic and Pro
Superseded on 30 September 2026 by the Standard and Pro prices, see /pricing.
Until now there was one filing plan. From today you choose between Basic and Pro. Basic is the filing service as before: you upload your report or type the figures, we run the pre-filing check and file every return, and Finanzamt letters land in your dashboard with the deadline named. Pro adds the checks and advice around the filing: your return is compared with the report you uploaded before it goes out, two hours of tax-advisor time per quarter for Finanzamt questions and assessment checks, every letter read for you in plain English with the deadlines watched, two corrections a year, and priority handling of a new registration. Both plans are flat: no per-transaction fees, no volume steps. Existing clients keep their plan, price and terms unchanged.
Faster start for a new registration
On Pro, we send your tax registration questionnaire (Fragebogen zur steuerlichen Erfassung) to the tax office within one business day of your documents being complete. It shortens our half of the wait; the tax office’s half stays the tax office’s.
Case work you can book on its own
Some problems are not a filing plan: a dormant VAT number that needs reactivating, an estimated assessment (Schätzbescheid) to answer, missed years to declare, a takeover from another adviser, a change of address at the tax office. Each now has its own page with what we do, what we need from you and the price, quoted before any work starts. No account or plan is needed.
Recommend us, both sides get €100
When a company you refer signs up with us, you receive €100 as a credit on your account and they receive €100 off their first year. If they join on the takeover plan instead, their €100 is credited after six months with us. Your referral link is in your dashboard.
Formatting in messages, and corrections marked as such
Bold and italic now work in messages both ways (*bold*, _italic_), so a figure or a deadline can stand out. When we correct a message we sent you within five minutes of sending, it shows as edited on your side, so nothing changes under you unnoticed.
The German registration can now be bought on its own
Superseded on 30 September 2026 by the Standard and Pro prices, see /pricing.
Until now the German VAT registration was only available inside the annual all-in plan. If you only need the number, you can now book just the registration for €599 one-time: we prepare and submit your tax registration questionnaire (Fragebogen zur steuerlichen Erfassung) and handle the Finanzamt until your tax number (Steuernummer) is issued, typically 4 to 8 weeks (individual tax offices can take considerably longer). Our engagement ends when the number is issued and we then withdraw our power of attorney; VAT returns are not included, and you can add the filing plan at any time with no further registration fee. If you plan to file with us anyway, the €1,499/year all-in remains the better deal (€699 plus a filing plan is about €1,998 in year one).
Your accountant can be copied on everything
If someone else does your bookkeeping, you no longer have to forward things by hand. Add up to five extra email addresses to your account and everything we send goes to them as well as you: deadline reminders, filing confirmations, and any document we upload for you, including Finanzamt letters and assessments. They receive copies only, so there is no second login and nothing they can change. You stay the account owner and you decide who is on the list, and we email you whenever it changes so you always know who is copied.
We now handle French VAT as well
Superseded on 30 September 2026 by the Standard and Pro prices, see /pricing.
Vaytax now covers France the same way it covers Germany: registration with the French tax office, the monthly returns (CA3), and the correspondence, in English, in the same dashboard. Registration plus your first year of filings is €1,899 per year; if you are already registered in France we take over the filings at €155 per month or €1,699 per year. If you are not sure whether France applies to you, message us where your stock sits and we will tell you straight.
OSS can now be booked on its own
Until now the quarterly One-Stop-Shop (OSS) return was an add-on to our German VAT service. If your German VAT is already handled elsewhere and you only need the OSS side, you can now book just that: same service, same price (€300 one-time setup, then €200 per quarter).
Any Finanzamt letter, read for you in seconds, free
Photograph or upload a letter from the German tax office (Finanzamt) and you get an instant English read: what kind of letter it is, what it says, and every deadline and euro amount it names. No signup and nothing to pay. If you would like us to respond to it, a fixed per-case quote follows within 24 hours on weekdays.
We now read lexoffice, sevDesk and DATEV exports
Until now you could upload an Amazon VAT Transactions Report or an easybill Rechnungsausgangsbuch and we would fill your figures in from it. That now works with any DATEV-format export, which is what lexoffice, sevDesk, easybill and most German bookkeeping tools produce.
If you keep your books in one of those, you can export the Buchungsstapel for the month, drop it into your filing screen, and your figures are filled in for you instead of typed by hand.
Your uploaded figures are now yours to edit
When you upload a report, the figures we read from it now appear as an editable draft rather than a finished answer. Every line can be changed, each one shows where it came from, and the return total updates as you type.
This matters more than it sounds. A report only knows about the channel it came from. If you also sell through your own shop, or you moved stock into Germany, or you paid import VAT, none of that is in the file, and now you can add it in the same place instead of starting over. What you confirm is exactly what we file.
A report we cannot read no longer stops you
If we cannot read a file, you now go straight to entering your figures yourself and we file those. Previously an unreadable export was a dead end.