Taxfix makes filing tax returns easier and more accessible for many people. Find out here who can use Taxfix and what requirements apply.
📌 Quick & Easy
- Taxfix offers a simple tax return solution. Whether you're an employee, a student, a retiree, or self-employed - the app caters to many different user groups.
- Taxfix is a digital solution. The app does not replace traditional tax consulting but enables an intuitive tax return process.
- Not all tax cases are supported. Restrictions apply to certain types of income.
🚀 Your Guide
Who Can Use Taxfix?
Taxfix is suitable for a variety of users, including:
- 💼 Employees and civil servants: Persons who are in an employment relationship or active public service.
- Income replacement benefits: If you have received short-time work benefits, unemployment benefits, parental benefits, or other income subject to progression, you can enter these in the app.
- 🎓 Students or trainees: Students enrolled at universities or in vocational training.
- 👴 Retirees: People in retirement, private pension income and civil servant pensions.
- 🏠 Landlords (from the 2023 tax year): e.g., rental of residential property owned solely or jointly, rental of undeveloped land, other immovable assets and material assets, granting of rights.
- 🚀 Small business owners (from the 2024 tax year): Self-employed individuals and business owners who qualify for the small business exemption (Kleinunternehmerregelung).
- 🧾 Self-employed Individuals with VAT liability (from the 2025 tax year, not in expert service): If you're using the standard taxation, you can easily file your advance sales tax return (Umsatzsteuervoranmeldung) and your sales tax return using Taxfix.
For these groups, Taxfix offers both the option to prepare the tax return independently and the Expert Service, where independent tax consultants handle the return.
Requirements for Using Taxfix
- Main residence in Germany: The main residence must have been in Germany for at least part of the year.
- Tax liability in Germany: The user must be taxable in Germany.
⚠️ Taxfix does not provide traditional tax consulting but a digital solution for preparing and submitting tax returns.
Which Tax Cases Are Not Yet Supported?
The following tax cases are currently not available:
- 🧾 Special Self-employed cases: e.g. if there was foreign revenue, employees, or a business closure/sale during the tax year.
- 🚜 Income from agriculture and forestry
- 🏠 Rental of buildings and land in certain cases, e.g. e.g., short-term rentals, rentals to relatives, or to entrepreneurs.
- 👨👩👧 Alimony payments to support adult relatives in Germany and abroad.
- 🏵️ Tax returns for inheritance or gifts
- 🌍 International tax cases in certain situations, e.g. expats and relocaters who are simultaneously resident in both Germany and abroad, foreign income under certain conditions, or limited tax liability.
- 🏛️ Special payments to members of parliament
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