Generate a German ELSTER VAT Tax Return File
Use Tax File Generation to produce the German ELSTER VAT tax return file, a monthly tax return to file with the German tax authorities.
Prerequisites: You must enter the following settings in
Vantagepoint for this file to generate correctly:
- In in the browser application, enter your enterprise's name, street address in Address Line 1, postal code in Address Line 4, company email, and company phone.
- In the Tax Auditing Feature section in
- Enter your enterprise's tax registration number.
- Select the Enable Tax Auditing Feature check box.
- Set up the following tax regions: EU (European Union), which excludes Germany, and DE for Germany.
in the browser application:
- On the Tax Reporting tab in : Enter tax codes with a tax region of EU and DE. Tax Codes for 19% Sales Tax (for Kz81) must end with "19." No other tax codes for the active company can end with "19."
To generate the German ELSTER VAT tax return file:
- On the desktop application Navigation menu, click .
- In the File Format field on the General tab of the Tax File Generation form, select German ELSTER File.
- Select other criteria for the tax file output on the General tab.
- Click the Review tab and review the transactions and totals that will be included in the tax file.
- On the toolbar of the Tax File Generation form, click Generate File to create the tax file.
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On the File Download dialog box, select whether to save or open the Transfer.ini file.
- If you choose to save the file, complete the entries on the Save As dialog box.
- If you open the file, it displays in Windows Notepad.
- Send the tax file to the German tax authorities as you normally do.
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