Pre-filled tax return (VaSt) - retrieve certificates

Procedure

After registering and logging in to the Elster Onlie Portal (EOP), the receipts can be displayed as soon as they have been transmitted to the tax administration. Due to the statutory deadlines, employers and insurance companies, for example, have until February 28 of the following year to submit the receipts for the income tax return.

You can find out more about registering with the Elster Online Portal at www.elster.de.

If you as a tax advisor want to access your clients' data, you also have the option of using the authorization database of your chamber of tax advisors. Please contact your chamber of tax advisors for this.

More information

If you cannot find your identification number, you should check your last tax assessment or the last letter from the tax office.
The identification number is printed on these.
Alternatively, you can request it from
www.identifikationsmerkmal.de If necessary, the registration authorities will also help with the investigation.

If you have any questions regarding registration on the ElsterOnline portal, please contact elsteronline@fa-hb.bremen.de by e-mail.

If you have any questions regarding registration for VAT and related issues (rights management, retrieval code letters, activation code letters, information letters from the proxy database), please send an e-mail to rechteverwaltungsstelle@fa-hb.bremen.de .