Taxes · Germany
Your VAT, prepared by code. Confirmed by you.
From freelancer to GmbH, small-business rule or standard VAT. EndoBrain reads your receipts, sorts them into periods and prepares your returns. You check, you confirm.
From receipt to return
Five steps. Only one of them is AI.
Receipt
A photo, a PDF or a line from your bank statement.
Reading
AI reads what is on the paper: who, what, when, how much.
VIES
The EU’s service confirms the country of a VAT number.
Rule
Code decides the tax treatment and the period.
Return
Code computes the figures for your return.
Example
A draft you can check line by line.
Every line shows its Kennzahl, the amount and the receipts behind it. Nothing is sent until you confirm. If you work with a Steuerberater, you hand them the same draft.
| Kz 81 | Sales at 19 % | €2,280.00 |
| Kz 66 | Input VAT | −€640.00 |
| Kz 83 | Payable | €1,640.00 |
What it does
Reads receipts and invoices
AI reads what is on the paper. It never calculates a tax figure.
Checks EU VAT numbers
The country comes from the EU’s VIES service. No answer means “unknown”, never a guess.
Prepares your returns
Advance VAT return (UStVA), EC sales list (ZM) and annual VAT return, computed by code for the small-business rule (§ 19 UStG) and standard taxation.
Writes invoices and timesheets
Invoices from your own records, monthly timesheets for your team.
Flags the unusual
“This looks unusual, please check”, with the rule it is based on. Never advice.
Works with your tax advisor
Export for your Steuerberater. You or your advisor decide.
How it stays within the law
Rules written into the code, not into a promise.
| Rule | What it asks for | What the code does |
|---|---|---|
| § 87d AO | Whoever transmits tax data for you needs your instruction. | Nothing reaches the tax office without your explicit confirmation. |
| § 146 AO | Electronic books stay in Germany or, with access for the tax office, elsewhere in the EU. | Books, records and receipts are stored in the EU, in Ireland. |
| GoBD | Records are complete, unchanged and traceable. | Built along the GoBD principles: the journal can’t be edited, originals never change, every AI decision is logged with who confirmed it and when. |
| StBerG | Individual tax advice is reserved for tax advisors. | No individual tax advice. It calculates and checks. You or your Steuerberater decide. |
| Code | Figures you file must add up. | Every figure for the tax office comes from code and is guarded by tests. AI only reads. |
Submission
Prepared for submission via ELSTER.
Your returns are built to the official ELSTER schemas. Submission runs in test mode today; live filing comes next, and it always waits for your confirmation.
In testing
Not yet
Honest about the edges: income tax return, profit statement (EÜR), balance sheet and payroll are not part of it.
Running every day inside the company it was built in. It opens to early-access companies one by one.
Bring your receipts into one brain.
Request early accessELSTER is the online service of the German tax administration. EndoBrain is an independent product and is not affiliated with the tax administration. EndoBrain does not provide tax advice.