Frequently asked questions

boring combines accounting software with certified tax advisors in one overall package: you sync your transactions and submit receipts, and we handle bookkeeping, review, VAT returns and annual financial statements. AI drafts the work, tax specialists check it, and the tax advisor carries out the activities reserved by law for licensed professionals.

Both, clearly separated: boring.legal GmbH provides the software and does not offer any regulated services; all activities reserved for licensed professionals are carried out by boring.tax Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH or a partner firm. You sign a regular tax advisory engagement for this.

For corporations, holdings, freelancers, and small and medium-sized businesses with manageable complexity, especially professional services. E-commerce with high transaction volumes, holdings with securities accounts and layered structures are handled with an individual offer.

No. boring.legal GmbH is based in Berlin and has nothing to do with the US-based Boring Company. We don't dig tunnels, we do bookkeeping.

Included is ongoing support with queries, corrections and communication with the tax office, and depending on the package, the annual financial statements too. We only charge for tailored services with your explicit consent - liquidations, restructurings, audit support or catching up on prior years. Prices by revenue tier are in the pricing overview.

Connect your business account once - we're integrated with more than 2,500 German banks as well as Stripe and PayPal - and submit receipts on an ongoing basis, by email, WhatsApp, upload or API. The checklist shows what's still missing; we track it in the task system instead of an Excel list.

Yes, as an add-on module, billed per employment and month. You maintain employee data, absences and variable components in the HR area, while payroll runs in the background via DATEV.

An ongoing overview in the app. The classic DATEV BWA (business analysis) with trial balance can be added on as an extra service, as PDF or Excel - for banks and shareholders, it's the authoritative document.

We provide more than 30 contract templates drafted by lawyers and an e-signing tool. Individual legal advice is not part of the service.

Yes. If the annual financial statements are part of your package, we file them including the e-balance sheet and take care of publication or deposit with the company register. We monitor all tax deadlines for you - provided we receive the necessary documents in time.

The same duties as a traditional tax advisory apply: a regular engagement letter, representation before the tax office and professional liability insurance. You can review the contract before signing. AI drafts the work, but no filing and no statement leaves the system without review by qualified staff.

Your bookkeeping is mirrored in DATEV, so auditors receive the data in the format they're used to, booked according to SKR 03 and SKR 04. We've already supported clients through tax audits; intensive audit support is billed based on effort.

In the boring Cloud on German servers, additionally mirrored in DATEV and retained in compliance with GoBD. You receive the data processing agreement, technical and organizational measures and list of subprocessors when you engage us. Details can be found under data processing.

A new tax advisor can take over your records via a DATEV data transfer: booking batches, receipt images and master data. You can also export all transactions and bookings yourself in DATEV or CSV format at any time.

Any time, even mid-year - if you file VAT returns quarterly, the start of a quarter is the cleanest cut-off. We initiate the data transfer from your previous advisor. For payroll, we start after a completed payroll month.

Yes, free and without obligation: try the software, review the offer, test the communication channel. What we don't offer is running two sets of bookkeeping in parallel for months.

Yes, ideally from day one. Your first financial year is then usually a short financial year, for example October to December. We prepare the annual financial statements for it too; a minimum price of €500 net applies.

Operating companies can cancel monthly with no minimum term; for pending annual financial statements, the engagement must continue until they're finished. Holdings are billed per annual financial statement, so monthly cancellation doesn't apply.

You have a dedicated contact for each area - one person each for support, bookkeeping, payroll and tax advisory. We answer requests in the platform chat within 24 hours, and you can reach us by phone during business hours at +49 30 2888 4170. Share letters from the tax office in the chat; we take care of it and call the authority ourselves if needed. For bigger topics, you can book an appointment directly.