Online submission with your own certificate

With online submission using a personal certificate, Lohnsteuer kompakt transfers your tax data directly to the tax office via the ELSTER interface – securely and encrypted via SSL connection.

As the processing is fully electronic, a simplified tax return is possible: You usually need to submit fewer documents than with the traditional submission.

Requirement: Personal ELSTER certificate

For paperless submission, you need a free certificate from the tax authorities. It enables authenticated transmission – a signed printout is no longer required. You can apply for the certificate exclusively at www.elster.de.

After submission

After successful submission, you will receive:

• a confirmation of receipt as proof of the transmission of your data,
• as well as the compressed tax return as a PDF document for your records.

Request for documents by the tax office

If the tax office requests documents, you can conveniently submit them using the electronic document submission (online document submission) function – without postal delivery. Lohnsteuer kompakt provides this function directly after submission.