Know your refund
before you file it.
Add your income and deductions and watch the number update as you go. Nothing costs anything until you decide the figure is worth filing.
Filed through ERiC, the tax administration's own submission library, under ELSTER manufacturer ID 04505.
Computed by the same engine that files your return. Your own figures will differ.
Add your income
Wage certificates to start — capital gains, rental, and self-employment income all fit in too, whatever applies to you.
Claim what's yours
Commute, home office, donations, childcare — the deductions people forget are usually worth more than the ones they remember.
File for €34,90
Review the number, pay the flat fee, and we submit directly to the Finanzamt via ELSTER. No advisory fees, no upsells.
Before you hand over your tax data
Reasonable things to want to know about anyone asking for it.
A registered ELSTER manufacturer
Returns are transmitted with ERiC, the tax administration's own certified submission library — not by scraping a form. Doing that at all requires a manufacturer ID issued through ELSTER's developer registration; ours is 04505, held in the name TaxEngine.de.
Nothing is charged until you file
Entering income, claiming deductions and seeing your calculated figure all cost nothing. The €34,90 is taken at the moment you choose to file, once — no subscription, no per-Anlage pricing, and no charge if you decide the number isn't worth filing.
Nothing is sent until you send it
Your return sits as a draft for as long as you want. It reaches the Finanzamt only when you press submit, and you see the exact figures being declared beforehand — this never files on your behalf in the background.
Software, not a Steuerberater
We are tax-preparation software operating under the Steuerberatungsgesetz's software provision, which means we calculate and file what you enter but do not advise you on it. For a genuinely complicated situation, a Steuerberater is the right call and we will not pretend otherwise.
What we store, where it is hosted and how long we keep it is set out in the Datenschutzerklärung, the terms in the AGB.