How or from where can I get tax number ?ģ) I have received a consultancy service and pay for it durıing the year. (I mean I have identifikationsnumber and the lady from AM told me that I can use that as tax number but when I type it, it doesn't work. Are these ones same with the ESt 1V ? If not which one should I use?Ģ) When I choose any of these formula, I am asked to type my tax number or I cannot go further. When I go to section Einkommensteuererklärung, I have only formular ESt 1A and ESt 1C. I also read the whole guide which is under this link ġ) I don't have Formular Mantelbogen ESt 1V. I have already registered to elster online and got my certificate. I am working as an 'Entwicklungsingenieur' in Stuttgart and I will make my Steuererklärung first time in Germany (actually first time in my life) Thank you so much for your time helping me!! If I select Umstatzsteuererklärung in the Formulare section of the website, it asks me to do it by year, not monthly and the latest year I can choose it 2015! I looked at the wiki guide but I can't understand what my first step should be, the Mantelbogen? Do I find it in my personal page on elster online? Can anyone be so kind to explain me the next steps I need to take? Is it better to go with the website or software? I got my certificate just yesterday and I still need to declare January, for which I will declare 0 but I want to insert the invoice from my tax manager so that I won't have to pay the VAT for it. How can I start with the monthly declaration? Should I first wait for another kind of number/code that represent that I am a VAT payer? I am clueless, what should my next step be? Unfortunately the elster online is the worst website in the history and its software it's even worse. In any case I already wrote to the Finanzamt that I want to start paying VAT this year and I requested my Elster certificate so that I can independently do my monthly declaration.

My tax consultant also told me that in case I won't earn more than 8500 I will pay VAT (monthly) but not Einkommensteuer at the end of the year.

I haven't earned more that 17500 yet (neither 8000) so I am going to pay the VAT even if I didn't exceed these limits. This only because I don't want to be in the situation of having to pay umsatzsteuer and einkommenstauer in January 2018 without being prepared. I was a Kleinerunternehmer last year and I wasn't sure how much I was going to earn this year so my Steuerberater suggested me to switch to VAT and ask my clients for the VAT in my invoices. I know that this topic has been already discussed but I can't find the right forum where I will have a precise answer to my question.

Elster online formulare 2014