General information on the implementation of the data protection provisions of Articles 12 to 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation in the tax administration.
Almost all citizens and companies come into contact with the tax administration - especially the tax offices - sooner or later because they have to submit tax returns and pay taxes and can claim refunds or child benefit. This involves processing personal data.
The following information relates to the processing of personal data for tax purposes, insofar as the German Fiscal Code is directly or indirectly applicable. This does not include the processing of personal data by customs authorities (e.g. customs duties, import VAT and motor vehicle tax).
In the taxation procedure, data is personal if it can be assigned to a natural person, a corporate body (e.g. association, corporation), an association of persons or an estate. Anonymized or pseudonymized data is not personal data.
When tax authorities process personal data, this means that they collect, store, use, transmit, make available for retrieval or delete this data, for example.
In the following, we will inform you about what personal data we collect, from whom we collect it and what we do with this data. We also inform you about your rights in data protection matters and who you can contact in this regard.
More information in the Download: data protection information letter (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)