Questions for your tax adviser
Prepare for your conversation with questions arising from your activities, figures and processes. Keep existing documents and uncertainties clearly separate.
This overview helps you prepare. It is not a full assessment or individual legal or tax advice.
Worksheet to take with you
Time is limited at the advisory meeting. Prepare three specific questions and identify the documents missing for each answer.
The examples show one way to organize the information. Print the sheet and add your details on paper. No information is collected or stored here.
Clarify business location and activities
ExampleCircumstances: shop and an additional service. Question: which activities need to be considered together in the assessment?
Your notesFor your tax adviser
ExampleDocuments: annual analysis and register reports. Question: which figures and period are relevant to the draft?
Your notesQuestions for your business
ExampleUncertainty: cash acceptance and turnover allocation. Question: which conditions must be assessed together?
Your notes
What you take away
A meeting agenda with circumstances, question and missing document. Record the answer and agreed next step alongside each item.
For your conversation
Clarify business location and activities
Clarify with your tax adviser which German or foreign rules cover your activities.
For your tax adviser
Clarify with your tax adviser which turnover and activities belong together and which reference year would apply to your case.
Questions for your business
Turnover definitions, reference periods, boundary cases and possible exemptions.
What still needs clarification
Your existing systems and documents, and the specifics of your activities.
Official sources
- Government draft · 09.10.2026Bundesrat document 585/26: Second Cash Register Act
- Current lawSection 146 of the German Fiscal Code (AO)
- Current law · used as a definition in the draftSection 19 of the German VAT Act (UStG)
An information resource from moaby, a provider of cash-register systems.
Individual tax questions belong with a tax adviser.