How does white-label accounting work for a German Steuerberater practice?

You keep the mandate, the client relationship and the filing. We work inside your DATEV mandant under your own client and cost-centre numbering, and deliver reconciled bookkeeping and VAT-ready workpapers to your review queue. Everything we produce carries your practice's branding, and we are never client-facing.

Can you file the Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung for us?

No — filing through ELSTER stays with your practice and your Steuerberater's authorisation. We reconcile the VAT accounts and prepare the return figures to a lodgement-ready standard on the 10th-of-the-month cycle; your Steuerberater reviews and submits it, or claims the Dauerfristverlängerung extension where that applies.

Who is allowed to give tax advice on our clients' files?

Only your Steuerberater. The Steuerberatungsgesetz reserves tax advice and the signing of a tax return to a licensed tax adviser, and we do neither. What we take off your desk is the production work underneath it — bookkeeping, reconciliation and workpaper preparation — so your Steuerberater's time goes to judgement calls, not data entry.

Do you keep records GoBD-compliant?

Yes. Every correction is posted as a documented reversing entry rather than an edit to the original, so the audit trail stays intact end to end. That is the standard your Finanzamt expects on review, and the standard your Steuerberater needs to sign off the Jahresabschluss without re-doing the year.

How is capacity priced?

Germany is not yet on our published rate card, so pricing is scoped rather than quoted from a published tier — a written quote within 24 hours of seeing your client volume and software.

🇩🇪 Germany · Advisory & Systems

White-Label Accounting for German Accounting Firms

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Why German businesses choose Salt

German Steuerberater practices are staffed for advisory, not for the reconciliation and coding a DATEV mandant needs before anyone senior opens it. A clean bank feed, matched receipts and a reconciled month-end are what make the Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung cycle and the year-end Jahresabschluss push survivable at the same time, and that production layer is exactly where most small and mid-sized practices are short-staffed. We supply it inside your own DATEV mandant, under your practice's own name — your clients see only your firm.

Tax advice and the signing of a German tax return are reserved to a licensed Steuerberater under the Steuerberatungsgesetz, and we do not compete for that role. What we deliver is bookkeeping, VAT-return preparation and the reconciled records behind a Jahresabschluss, kept to GoBD's requirement that entries stay complete, traceable and unalterable — corrections go in as documented reversing entries, never edits — so your Steuerberater reviews a file that already meets that standard rather than one that has to be rebuilt first.

Germany filing calendar

The deadlines we track against your ledger.

Recurring Germany compliance deadlines and the authority each is filed with
Obligation	Frequency	Due	Authority
Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung (VAT advance return)VAT-registered businesses; frequency depends on prior-year VAT	Monthly	10th of the following month, or the 10th of the second following month with a Dauerfristverlängerung	ELSTER
Körperschaftsteuererklärung (corporate income tax return)GmbH, UG and other corporations	Annual	31 July of the following year; end of February of the second following year via a Steuerberater	Finanzamt
Lohnsteuer-Anmeldung (payroll tax return)Employers	Monthly	10th of the following month	ELSTER

Last reviewed against the source 9 September 2026. These are the standard dates. Extensions through a registered agent, a non-calendar year end, and volume-based filing frequencies all shift them — confirm your own dates with Finanzamt. This is general information, not tax advice.

White-Label Accounting deliverables

Dedicated resource working under your brand
Fractional (20h) or full-time-equivalent (40h)
Seasonal tax workpaper & prep capacity
Zero-local-data, NDA-governed delivery
Time-zone-aligned onshore collaboration

Germany software stack

DATEV

lexofficesevDeskSAP Business OnePersonio

DATEV is non-negotiable in the German market — it is the interchange format your Steuerberater already expects, not a preference. We work inside your DATEV Unternehmen online or Kanzlei-Rechnungswesen mandant under your own client numbering, with GoBD-compliant records throughout.

What this costs in practice

A worked example, in your currency.

A Berlin GmbH selling software across the EU, 2,000 transactions a month, monthly VAT filing.

In-house Buchhalter (fully loaded, per month): 5.400 €
Salt bookkeeping + VAT compliance: 1.950 €
Monthly saving: 3.450 €

Figures in EUR. Cross-border EU sales usually add OSS reporting on top of the domestic Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung.

Standards and authorities

The framework your Germany accounts are held to.

We prepare to HGB (German GAAP), with GoBD record-keeping rules. These are the bodies that set that framework and the authorities you file with — linked so you can verify the standard rather than take our word for it.

Listed for reference. Salt Accounting Group is not stating membership, registration or affiliation with any of these organisations. Where a filing must be lodged by a registered local agent, it is — your agent keeps the lodgement and the professional sign-off.

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