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Case · outstanding years and unfiled returns

Months or years never filed. We file them and deal with the estimate.

You send the periods and your figures. We file what is missing and answer the estimated assessment (Schätzbescheid) inside the deadline.

Our own fees, net of VAT
€99per missing return
Annual return with your figures€599
Objection (Einspruch) or hearing response€400 to €800
Rebuilding figures from marketplace reports€200 an hour
Application to reduce late-payment surcharges€400
Deregistration afterwards, incl. the nil returns€600
Two to three open years typically €1,500 to €3,000
Tell us the situation
Where it ends up

From the office’s figure to your filed years.

Now

An estimated assessment (Schätzbescheid)

A figure the office set, with surcharges running while the periods stay open.

After the work

The returns filed, the years closed

Your figures filed for every open period, and the correspondence carried to the end.

What we need from you

Five things, and we can start.

Your tax number and office
The open periods
Your figures, or the marketplace reports
The letters
A signed power of attorney (Vollmacht). We send it pre-filled.
What you get
Every missing return filed
The objection (Einspruch) where the deadline allows
An application to reduce surcharges where the facts support it
The correspondence until the years are closed
How fast
1
Your written quote
Within one working day.
When a deadline is close
The same working day.
5
First returns out
Within five working days of your figures.
The rule on every case. The fee covers the work, not the tax office’s decision. No promise as to outcome or result. Quoted and paid before work starts. Terms for case work.
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Questions

Asked about outstanding returns

One. The unit is the return the office expects: a quarterly filer owes one return per quarter, a monthly filer one per month. The count on the quote is the count of returns, never of months.

Send the reports. Reconstructing figures from them is a separate line, by the hour, estimated before we start; the returns themselves stay at the per-return price. If you can pull your own figures from your accounting, that line disappears.

Not necessarily. An objection is possible inside one month of the notice; after that, the estimate can still be replaced by filing the real returns in many cases, but the surcharges are harder to remove. Send the notice and its date: the quote says which of the two you are in.

If the number stays live, the returns keep coming every month or quarter and run on a filing plan from then on. If you stopped selling in Germany, the number can be closed: deregistration including the nil returns is a fixed line on the quote.

Related

Usually the other half of the same problem

Case

Estimated assessment or hearing

The response, filed inside the deadline.

 Case

Reactivating a switched-off number

If the office deregistered you over the missing returns.

 Guide

Catching up on late annual returns

How the annual return fits with the periods.

 Guide

Late-filing surcharge (Verspätungszuschlag)

What § 152 AO actually says.

Last updated 16 September 2026 · Terms for case work