The working surface between you and your German tax advisor.
Everything you need to register, file, and stay compliant in Germany — without speaking the language, learning the line items, or chasing your accountant for last month's PDF.
Get a German tax number without the paperwork pain.
A guided 7-step flow handles the German tax-office registration form, drafts your power of attorney and SEPA mandate, and keeps your documents in order. Most clients finish in under 25 minutes.
- Drag-and-drop uploadsArticles of association, passport, marketplace turnover — accepted as PDF, JPG, or CSV up to 25 MB each.
- Auto-generated mandatesWe pre-fill your power of attorney and SEPA mandate from your registration data. You sign once, we file with the tax office.
- Your work is saved as you goClose the tab and come back. Every field, every uploaded file, persisted to your account.
Upload supporting documents
We need three files to file the registration form on your behalf.
Monthly returns done in four minutes, not four hours.
We translated the 37-field German VAT return (Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung) into eleven plain-English questions. Auto-fill from last month, see your running VAT due in real time, and submit when you're ready.
- Copy from prior monthOne click pulls last month's section structure forward. Just update the numbers.
- Plain-English UI, real tax codes behind itToggle "Did you sell to German customers?" — we map your input to the underlying line items in the background. DATEV-clean every time.
- Live VAT-due previewSee the running total update as you fill in each section. No surprises at submit.
Step 2 of 5 · Sales
Sales to German customers (standard 19% rate)
Use your shop's gross sales report for Germany.
EU sales (VAT-exempt, with valid VAT IDs)
Cross-border B2B inside the EU.
Every signed mandate, every tax-office letter, in one place.
No more digging through email for that one PDF. Your engagement letter, signed mandates, filing PDFs, tax assessments — all searchable, all downloadable, all backed up in EU data centres.
- Unified document vaultEngagement letter, power of attorney, SEPA mandate, every VAT return you've filed — chronologically organised by tax year.
- Searchable by period or typeFind the March 2026 filing, all SEPA mandates, or every letter from your tax office — in one click.
- EU data residencyStored in Frankfurt (Supabase EU-Central-1). GDPR-compliant. Encrypted at rest, signed URLs for access.
Never miss a tax-office letter — even when it's in German.
Letters from the German tax office come to us. We translate, draft a response, and ping you to approve. Filing deadlines, confirmation receipts, payment requests — all surfaced in one inbox.
- Tax-office letters, translatedEvery official correspondence arrives in your Vaytax inbox with a plain-English summary and a draft reply ready for review.
- Filing deadline remindersA nudge a week out, three days out, and on the morning of. No more €1,000 late penalties because the letter sat in your spam folder.
- One source of truthEmail plus in-app inbox. The same notification, in two places, so it actually reaches you.
See exactly what was filed, when, and what you paid.
Your filing history at a glance. Year-to-date VAT due, every return you've submitted, every confirmation from the tax office. Export to PDF or CSV for your bookkeeper.
- Year-to-date overviewVisual breakdown of every filed period, draft, and upcoming deadline. VAT-due totals roll up automatically.
- Filing log with statusesFiled, confirmed, draft — every period's state visible at a glance. Click into any filing to see the underlying line items.
- Bookkeeper-ready exportsDownload every filing as XLSX or PDF. Send a year's worth to your accountant in one zip.
One licensed German tax advisor. One fixed price. Every return handled.
Vaytax is opening for a small spring 2026 cohort. Join the waitlist and we'll reach out with onboarding details when your slot opens.