Which notice is valid? Paper or electronic?

Electronically, no tax assessment notice is retrieved via ELSTER. The tax authorities only provide the assessment data electronically.

The electronic tax assessment notice displayed by Lohnsteuer kompakt is therefore not an official notice. It is only intended to allow you to compare your notice electronically with the calculation from Lohnsteuer kompakt.

If in doubt, check the displayed data against those on the paper notice.

In exceptional cases, the paper notice may differ from the electronic assessment data. For example, it may happen that individual values are not transmitted or the ELSTER notice calculates differently in certain points.

Only the paper tax assessment notice sent to you by post is legally valid.