Only do your tax return on your smartphone – that’s what the tax tips app for Android from version 7.0 and iOS from version 12.0 promises. The app is now available for the 2023 assessment year.
Downloading and entering the data is initially free. As soon as you want to send your tax return to the tax office from the app, you have to pay for the tax tips app: 24.99 euros are then due. Then register with your personal data and identify yourself via Videoident.

Tax tips app
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The creators of the app emphasize: The tax tips app is currently suitable for simple Tax cases. So if you spend many hours poring over your tax return every year and have to fill out many different attachments and compile large amounts of receipts or even need help from a tax advisor, then the app is probably not suitable for you.
According to the manufacturer, the tax tips app should be suitable for all tax classes: employees, married and partnered couples, families with children, single parents, single people, young professionals, trainees, students and people who have not yet filed a tax return should use the app to do their tax return without can do prior knowledge. However, the app is apparently not intended for the EÜR and certainly not for the self-employed and freelancers. But only for employees.
With the app you can only scan the income tax certificate, but no other receipts.
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This is how you get started with the tax tips app
Users should take a photo of their income tax certificate or upload a scan of it to the app. The app then guides the user through the tax return with – according to the manufacturer – intuitive questions in understandable language and checks the entries for plausibility. The TaxSparDeclaration team is behind the solution. Their experts are said to have translated the tax forms “into understandable language, an intuitive user interface and a modern design”.
After entering all the data, the app tries to calculate the amount of the tax refund or additional payment.
Tax returns for the 2022 assessment year can still be completed using the tax tips app. The possibility of transferring data from 2022 to the 2023 tax year is said to be in preparation. However, this is already possible in the free Elster. However, it is not possible to transfer data from Elster to the tax tips app.
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