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Tax return

Your tax return as a finished draft.

Your bookings become the income tax return (E1, E1a) and the annual VAT return (U1) as a draft. You review – and hand it to your tax advisor or file it yourself. Nothing is filed until you explicitly approve it.

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Income tax 2025 (E1a)

Calculated from your bookings

  • Business income€64,200.00
  • Business expenses-€21,870.00
  • Profit allowance-€4,950.00
  • Profit after allowance€37,380.00
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Included

What Operate prepares for you.

  • E1 and E1a

    Income tax return with its supplement for sole proprietors.

  • U1 – annual VAT return

    The annual return is built from your VAT returns.

  • L1 for employees

    Employee tax assessment as a draft to review.

  • Find deductions

    Familienbonus Plus and the commuter allowance – Operate asks about what you might have forgotten.

  • Deadlines in view

    A reminder before the filing deadline and before income tax prepayments fall due.

  • Handover

    Bookings and receipts as a BMD or DATEV export for your tax advisor.

Operate is not a tax advisor and does not replace tax advice. For advice and special cases, your tax advisor remains responsible.

You work. Operate does the rest.

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Nothing is filed until you explicitly approve it.

    Your tax return as a finished draft. | Operate