Submit your tax return at the tax office

If you are required to submit an income tax return, you must do so by 31 December at the latest. May of the following year at Tax office hand over. It's one of those things about the deadline.

Prepare your tax return on time

• You can send the tax return by post, but recently you can also send it online via the Elster program or post it directly in the mailbox at the tax office.
• Throwing it in the mailbox at the tax office is a good idea if you have to meet the deadline within which you are obliged to submit your tax return.

You can only throw it in until midnight

• Do you have to submit your tax return by 31. You will only meet your deadline if you drop the documents in the mailbox at the tax office by midnight at the latest. The mailbox is a so-called night mailbox. Documents that you drop in there after midnight will be diverted to another container and will only be considered as on 1. June received at the tax office.
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• Please note that the tax office is entitled to charge late payment surcharges for tax returns submitted at a limited time.


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Make work easier for the tax office

• When you submit your tax return to the tax office, make sure that your documents are linked in such a way that they do not disintegrate when you submit them. You should therefore staple your documents together or use a stapling rail to connect them. You don't necessarily need to put them in an envelope.
• Also make sure that the cover sheet of your tax return is on top and contains your personal data, in particular your tax number or identification number.
• Otherwise, you can also submit your tax return directly to the porter at the tax office.
• You have to know that you will not receive a confirmation of receipt from the tax office and that you can only wait for the receipt of the tax assessment. At most, you can call the clerk to make sure that your tax return has been received and is being processed.