Latest news

Owners of real property (property tax B) who have not yet submitted their property tax return will receive a reminder letter from their tax office starting in mid-June 2023.

Tax offices do not send confirmation of receipt

The processing of income tax returns for 2022 is now starting at the tax offices in Baden-Württemberg.

Citizens are currently reporting requests for payment of an outstanding debt that they claim to have received from the tax office via text message.

We ask for your understanding that, as a matter of principle, no confirmation of receipt can be issued for objections to the new property tax.

The Federal Ministry of Finance has announced important guidance on the energy price allowance for pensioners in the 2022 income tax return (EkSt return).

The tax offices offer a new service for electronic tax returns. The app MeinELSTER+ helps collect receipts and vouchers for the tax return during the year and already assign them to the corresponding fields in the income tax return. This makes the actual preparation of the tax return a bit easier.

for the year 2023 in the case of spouses or civil partners who are both employees (updated version in light of the changes made by the Annual Tax Act 2022)

The official deadline for property tax B ended yesterday. By then, 68 percent of the returns had been submitted to the tax offices in Baden-Württemberg. In total, around 94 percent digitally. It is still possible to submit returns after the deadline. Elster is, of course, still available. Anyone who has not yet submitted their declaration can still do so.

The Oberfinanzdirektion Karlsruhe is looking for student assistants (f/m/d) for the tax offices of the state Baden-Württemberg with immediate effect and for a limited period of time for activities related to the implementation of the property tax reform.

Due to the current increase in telephone inquiries regarding the property tax reform, there are currently longer waiting times when contacting your tax office by telephone.

Anyone who has not yet submitted their property tax return should do so quickly: The deadline for submission is January 31, 2023, by which time property owners (property tax B) must have submitted their declaration to the tax office.

Due to a system error, the tax authorities sent out multiple copies of property value assessments and property tax value notices.

In its ruling of July 8, 2021, the German Federal Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht, BVerfG) declared the statutory regulation of interest on tax arrears and tax refunds at an annual rate of 6% to be incompatible with the German Basic Law. Therefore, the previous regulation is no longer applicable for interest periods from January 1, 2019.

This year, citizens can again apply for their wage tax allowance for the coming year as of October 1. This is the so-called "Application for Wage Tax Reduction".

The deadline for submitting property tax returns will be extended by three months. This was decided by the finance ministers of the federal states. Instead of the planned deadline of Oct. 31, 2022, the returns do not have to be submitted until Jan. 31, 2023.

On 16.09.2022, a Recruiting Day of the Baden-Württemberg financial administration will take place for the first time from 14:30 to 18:00 at the educational center of Oberfinanzdirektion in Freiburg, Habsburger Str. 130.

Instruction sheet on the duty of courts and authorities to notify tax authorities pursuant to Section 116 AO in the event of the existence of facts indicating a tax offense

To assist in submitting the declaration in My ELSTER, we have created step-by-step instructions for you.

As part of the property tax reform, no on-site appointments are made to determine the survey data.