taxtastic: German Tax Return

taxtastic UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

About this app

Employed, self-employed or both? taxtastic is the tax app that keeps up with your life. From income tax to profit-and-loss accounting, VAT and trade tax, you handle your whole tax case in one app — guided, instead of lost in forms.

taxtastic is available in English. Switch the language and the interview, the help texts and your results follow — for the German tax system, in a language you actually read.

One app instead of a pile of tools

You answer plain questions about your life. taxtastic assigns your answers to the right forms and annexes automatically and hides everything that does not apply to you. If your situation gets more complex, you do not have to switch tools: income tax, profit-and-loss accounting, VAT and trade tax work together.

Pre-filled. But not blindly.

Wage, pension and insurance data already held by the tax administration can be imported via ELSTER once you have authorised it. After that, taxtastic asks specifically for what is still missing — your commute, home office, work equipment or tradesperson invoices, for example.

Receipts? Just point your camera.

Photograph invoices and receipts straight into the app. The amount and date are recognised and offered for you to accept. Recognition runs on your device, and your receipts stay stored locally.

You can see what is happening.

While you answer questions, taxtastic keeps updating your expected tax result. You see straight away how a new entry may change it.

For simple and complex tax cases

• Employees — commute, home office and work-related expenses
• Freelancers and the self-employed — profit-and-loss accounting and business expenses
• Business owners — VAT and trade tax
• Landlords and property owners — rental income, depreciation and tradesperson costs
• Investors — capital gains and loss offsetting
• Civil servants — private health insurance, allowances and work-related expenses
• Pensioners — pension income, provisions and further deductions
• Students — training costs and loss carryforward
• Combined cases, for example employed and self-employed at the same time

What taxtastic does for you

• A guided interview instead of complicated tax forms
• Import of wage, pension and insurance data already reported
• Receipt scanner that recognises amount and date
• Live calculation of your expected tax result
• Plausibility check before you file
• Electronic filing through ERiC, the official ELSTER interface
• Assessment check: compare your tax assessment against your return
• Carry your data over from one tax year to the next
• Biometric app lock, where your device supports it
• Encrypted transfer and hosting in Germany

Your taxes. Without the tax jargon.

taxtastic only shows you the questions that fit your situation. You do not need to know which annex or which tax field sits behind them.

Costs and use

You can use taxtastic free of charge and calculate your expected tax result. Costs only arise when you want to file your tax return. The paid step happens on our website, not inside the app.

Provider and official sources

taxtastic is a private tax program by taxtastic UG (haftungsbeschränkt). It is not a public authority and not part of the German tax administration. For electronic filing, taxtastic uses ERiC, the official ELSTER interface. taxtastic does not provide individual tax advice.

Official information sources:

• ELSTER portal of the German tax administration: https://www.elster.de
• ELSTER list of certified software: https://www.elster.de/elsterweb/softwareprodukt
• Federal Ministry of Finance: https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de

What’s new

Deine gescannten Belege liegen jetzt verschluesselt auf dem Geraet. Sie werden weder in die Cloud gesichert noch bei einem Geraetewechsel uebertragen. Bereits gespeicherte Belege bleiben unveraendert nutzbar.