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.
The German registration can now be bought on its own
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 (€599 plus a filing plan is about €1,698 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
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 €130 per month or €1,450 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.