You already have your German VAT number. If you are unhappy with your current provider, left without support, or your provider stopped serving you, Vaytax takes over your monthly VAT return filing. No switching fee, measured in days, €89/month.
The short version
You keep your German VAT number. It belongs to your company, not to your provider. Switching is a power-of-attorney (Vollmacht) handover, not a re-registration. There is no gap in your tax registration.
There is no separate switching fee. The change of representation is handled as part of onboarding. If past returns are unfiled when you switch, we catch them up at €89 per past return, charged once.
It is measured in days, not weeks. Because you already hold your German VAT number, there is no 4 to 8 week registration wait. Once your documents are in, your filing moves over in days.
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If you are already VAT-registered in Germany and any of these match your situation, switching is straightforward.
You can reach someone, but the moment you ask an actual tax question it goes to a queue, comes back days later, or arrives with an hourly bill attached. And the person handling your file keeps changing. With us the licensed German tax advisor is in house and does not rotate.
You pay every month and receive no submission reference, no confirmation, nothing you could show a tax office. Every return we file leaves you a dated record and the reference to go with it, visible in your dashboard.
Letters from the Finanzamt arrive in German, on statutory deadlines, and get filed unopened or forwarded to you untranslated. That is the failure that turns a small VAT bill into a large one. We read every letter, in English, and answer it.
The service you used has wound down, stopped serving Germany, or stopped serving your segment. Your VAT number is still live and still has deadlines. You need continuity, fast.
If a few months slipped because the handover was messy, we file the open returns as catch-up at €89 per past return and put you back on a clean monthly schedule.
Most switching stories start small. A provider stops replying, or a filing slips. The cost only appears later, and it comes through the post.
When a German VAT return is not filed, the Finanzamt does not simply wait. It issues an estimated assessment, a Schätzbescheid, and its estimate is deliberately set high, because the estimate is meant to be worse than filing honestly. That assessment is legally binding once the objection window closes, whether or not the figure resembles what you actually owed. Late-filing surcharges and interest are added on top.
Because the estimate is not based on your actual sales, it can land far above what you really owed, and sellers have reported five-figure assessments against a liability of a few euros, purely because nobody opened the envelope in time. This is one of the most avoidable expenses in German VAT, and avoiding it is unglamorous work: read the post, understand it, answer it before the deadline. That is what we do with every letter, and we tell you what it says in English.
Three moving parts, all handled as part of onboarding. No separate switching project.
Start your registration on the path for companies that already hold a German VAT number. You enter your existing tax details, your address, and your bank details. No re-registration with the Finanzamt is needed.
You sign the Vollmacht and the engagement letter (Mandatsvereinbarung) electronically. No printer, no scan. This authorises us to act as your representative for your German VAT filings.
As part of onboarding, we register the new Vollmacht with your assigned Finanzamt and take over your VAT return filing. Your future correspondence and filing access route to us. Your German VAT number stays exactly the same.
The report you already download each month is all we need. Upload your Amazon VAT Transactions Report or easybill export in your dashboard; we read every line, you review the figures, and your 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.
Catch-up filings
If past returns are still unfiled when you switch, we file them as catch-up at €89 per past return, charged once. After that you are on the standard monthly cadence with nothing outstanding.
Catch-up applies only to months that were genuinely unfiled before you joined. Once you are with us, every monthly return is part of your subscription.
Measured in days once your documents are in.
New registrations wait 4 to 8 weeks for the Finanzamt to issue a tax number. You are past that. There is no such wait when you switch, because your number already exists.
After you sign up and sign the Vollmacht, the change of representation and your first filing setup happen in days, not weeks. The main variable is how quickly your existing details and any open documents come across.
From there it is a clean monthly cadence: you enter your turnover, a licensed German tax advisor reviews and files your VAT return, and you get your confirmation back.
You already have your German VAT number, so there is no registration fee. Filing only.
Switching · Path B
Filing only. No registration fee, because you keep your existing German VAT number. Cancel anytime.
What's included
Pay yearly
The same routine filing, billed yearly instead of monthly. Works out to about €82/month, roughly 7% off paying month by month. No registration fee.
Billed yearly. Same monthly UStVA plus annual return.
Catch-up filings for periods before you joined are €89 per past return, charged once. Corrections to an already-submitted return are quoted per case. No per-transaction surcharges.
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).
Nothing separate: the change of representation is handled as part of onboarding. If past returns are still unfiled when you switch, we catch them up at €89 per past return. There is no lock-in on our side either.
All routine filings: the monthly VAT return (UStVA) every month, plus the annual VAT return. There is no per-filing charge for this routine cadence. Catch-up filings for periods before you joined are €89 per past return, and corrections to an already-submitted return are quoted per case.
Yes. Routine correspondence about your filings (acknowledgements, standard queries, routine letters) is included. More complex matters, a full audit, or substantive tax advice are quoted separately before any work starts.
Not sure what you need?
Answer a few quick questions about how and where you sell. We will tell you whether Germany requires you to register, and what it costs, in plain English. No account, no obligation.
Sign up on the already-registered path, sign the Vollmacht, and we take over your German VAT return filing as part of onboarding.
Start the switchReviewed June 2026 by a licensed German tax advisor.