Transfer bank details to the Federal Central Tax Office

If you would like to send your bank details to the Federal Central Tax Office for possible future payments, there are various ways to do this.

The federal government has created a payment channel to enable direct state payments to citizens in the future. For this purpose, the Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt) requires your bank details.

If you send your bank details to the BZSt, they will be stored there. The storage of your bank details is not associated with any registration, waiting list or similar for possible future payments. Whether there will be such payments, who will receive them and how the procedure will work depends on what measures the legislator decides in future.

The BZSt only stores the last bank details provided. If your bank details change, a new notification is sufficient.

You do not need to submit any further documents.

You have an account from the European payment area (SEPA).

No legal remedies are provided for.

You can send your bank details to the Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt) in various ways:

Via the "BZSt IBAN+" app:

• Download the "BZSt IBAN+" app for Apple or Android smartphones from the respective app store.
• Send your bank details to the BZSt in the app.

Via "My ELSTER":

• Visit "My ELSTER - your online tax office" and log in.
• In the "My ELSTER" section, go to "All forms" and select the form "Report your bank details to the BZS "
• Follow the instructions.
• The system registers the change and saves the new data.

Through your bank:

• You instruct your bank to transmit your bank details to the BZSt. Depending on the bank, this may be possible via online banking, telephone banking, by post or in person at a branch. Ask your bank about this if necessary.
• You will receive confirmation of your details from the BZSt.

By an authorized person:

• An authorized person transmits your account details on your behalf, for example a tax advisor.

If child benefit is paid for underage children:

• The family benefits office will send the account details to the BZSt on your behalf to which your child benefit was last paid.
• You will receive confirmation of your details from the BZSt.

There is no deadline.

There are no costs.

The BZSt does not forward your bank details to the tax offices. If you want to send bank details to the tax office for tax matters, you must continue to do this separately.