Taxfix: Tax return for Germany

Taxfix SE

About this app

Taxfix SE (Köpenicker Str. 122, 10179 Berlin) – the tax app for employees, trainees, students and expats.

Take your finances into your own hands. With Taxfix, you can complete your tax return yourself without any prior knowledge in simple interview mode or hand it over to an experienced tax advisor who you can reach anytime via chat. Complete your 2021-2024 tax return now in no time at all, easily and quickly.

Tax without tax forms, without tax lingo: With the Taxfix app, employees, students and pensioners can complete their tax returns quickly. This also applies to employees who have lived part of the year in Germany and the other part abroad. There are no incomprehensible forms to fill out for your tax return. On average, you'll get €1,172 back!

Do it yourself step by step: In the new and improved questionnaire form, simple questions are used to collect all the information you need to prepare your tax return.

Immediate calculation: Based on the answers, the tax calculator immediately calculates the amount of the refund.

Convenient data transfer: All you need is your income tax certificate.

Secure documents: Save and categorize your documents.

Buy yourself more time with the expert service. When filing with the expert service, the filing deadline is automatically extended from 1 July 2025 to 30 April 2026. Taxfix connects you with an independent tax advisor so you can sit back and relax. Simply upload documents to the app and an expert will file for you.

Paperless tax return: Your tax return is sent directly to your local tax office electronically via the official ELSTER (www.elster.de) interface of the tax authorities.

Fair fees: Downloading, using the tax app and calculating your tax refund with the tax calculator are free of charge. For a flat fee of €39.99 (or €59.99 for joint assessment), you can submit your tax return directly to your local tax office. For 20% of your tax refund (minimum €99,99), you can have your tax prepared by a tax advisor.

Finished quickly: Without Taxfix, you need an average of over six hours per year for your income tax return — with Taxfix, it’s significantly faster.

In order to guarantee the perfect quality of your income tax return, Taxfix is currently focusing on simple tax cases. For this reason, Taxfix does not yet support the following groups of people, tax cases or income:

Freelancers, self-employed persons and tradespeople, including the taxable operation of a photovoltaic system.
Pensions as a civil servant (pension) or for other reasons of obligation, e.g. sales transaction
Income from letting and leasing rooms, apartments, houses and other developed and undeveloped land. This also applies to rentals via platforms such as AirBnB
Support for adult relatives through maintenance payments
Income from forestry and agriculture
Special payments to members of parliament
Year-round residence abroad (limited tax liability)
Residences in two countries at the same time
Foreign income during the stay in Germany only with restrictions (except: Capital gains, subsequent wages for previous activities abroad and V+V/L+F from EU/EEA are supported)
Tax return for inheritance or gift

If none of these tax cases apply to you, then get the Taxfix app and submit your income tax return easily - whether for the tax year 2021, 2022, 2023 or 2024.

DISCLAIMER:
(1) Information in this app comes from https://taxfix.de
(2) None of Taxfix's services include or constitute tax advice or any other advisory service. Nor does Taxfix claim to offer these services.
(3) This app does not represent any government or political entity and does not provide or facilitate the provision of government services.
(4) Taxfix takes the privacy of its users very seriously. Further information can be found at https://taxfix.de/datenschutz/

Ratings and reviews

So so - somewhat easy, just like for other software or apps, though the Lohnsteuer scan didn't work well. No real explanations so I had to Google to not guess. Overall, not very transparent and I had to search for the actual return. App made a mistake on the return (applied deductible for married couples instead of single, though I entered it correctly). If you speak German, there are better apps that are more clear and easier to use. The customer service is courteous and helpful though.

Pretty accurate AND user friendly. Before getting to know Taxfix, even the sheer idea of doing my own tax declaration scared me because I was afraid of making mistakes. Taxfix functions so well that I am actually surprised that it is a German app because usually nothing digital ever functions properly in Germany. Keep up the good job!

It used to be a great reliable app and very accurate as well, at least for average user with normal income and not many special cases. I have been using it for 5 years. This year though it seems they introduced several annoying elements: one being the subscription model for the same price (as if the cost for storing a couple records of me is that high) and the other is introducing another app that makes ID verification for you -who wouldn't want to hack & fill my tax declaration for me