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Features · VAT and tax office

Straight to ELSTER. With your certificate.

Honeypod calculates the provisional VAT return (Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung) and the annual VAT return (Umsatzsteuererklärung) from your entries and submits them itself. It then files the proof as a PDF in the archive.

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The Taxes module in Honeypod with the boxes of a provisional VAT return, ready to send. The Taxes module in Honeypod with the boxes of a provisional VAT return, ready to send.

Straight to ELSTER

No detour to Mein ELSTER.

The provisional VAT return and the annual VAT return go from Honeypod straight to ELSTER, with your own certificate. For this, Honeypod has its own manufacturer ID at ELSTER. You enter the PIN again for every submission. It is stored nowhere.

Submitting to ELSTER: Test run or binding submission, below it the field for the certificate’s PIN. Submitting to ELSTER: Test run or binding submission, below it the field for the certificate’s PIN.
A transmission log from ELSTER, printed here as a preview without a submission. A transmission log from ELSTER, printed here as a preview without a submission.

Transmission log

The proof is in the archive.

After every submission, Honeypod files the ELSTER log with the transfer ticket as a PDF under the year.

The tax dates in the Taxes module: Provisional VAT returns, annual returns and the permanent deadline extension, each with its date and ticked off. The tax dates in the Taxes module: Provisional VAT returns, annual returns and the permanent deadline extension, each with its date and ticked off.

Tax calendar

Only the deadlines that apply to you.

The calendar knows your business’s legal form and lists exactly its deadlines. For a GmbH or UG, drawing up and disclosing the annual financial statements are part of it.

What’s more

  • Cash accounting (Ist-Versteuerung) and the small enterprise scheme (Kleinunternehmerregelung) under § 19 UStG
  • VAT monthly, quarterly or once a year
  • § 13b on the receipt, the input VAT in the same step
  • Input VAT journal, the proof behind box 66
  • Input VAT either from the invoice date or only once paid
  • Payments to the tax office by type and period
  • A test run before submission, preselected
  • Reverse charge, exports and supplies to the EU in their box
  • Submission with tax numbers from every federal state

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Questions from the beta

What testers have asked.

Does Honeypod send the provisional VAT return to the tax office itself?

Yes. The provisional VAT return and the annual VAT return go straight to ELSTER, with your ELSTER certificate. The transmission log is then stored as a PDF in the archive. Honeypod calculates the recapitulative statement, you still have to submit it yourself.

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Tax consultant and year-end One export, no follow-up questions.
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