Frequently asked questions

boring.tax is the bookkeeping and tax platform for GmbHs and UGs, with tax advice from its own boring.tax Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH (in some cases a partner firm), liable for its work. You choose one of three tiers and switch between them in the same account without migrating any data: the software, in which an AI agent books and you approve; the software with boring accountants; or the full package, in which the tax firm takes over filings, annual accounts and tax returns. The prices are fixed and published in the pricing overview.

Both, clearly separated: all activities reserved for licensed professionals are carried out by our own firm, boring.tax Steuerberatungsgesellschaft mbH, in some cases by a partner firm, and you sign a regular tax advisory engagement for this. The software comes from boring.legal GmbH, which does not offer any regulated services itself.

For GmbHs and UGs with manageable complexity and no finance department of their own, and for their holding companies, 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.

Yes. You create e-invoices in boring, incoming e-invoices are read automatically, and invoices can be converted to ZUGFeRD and XRechnung. Our team also contributes actively to mustangproject, an open-source library for creating and validating e-invoices.

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.