Register your agricultural and forestry business

If you take up a self-employed agricultural or forestry activity, you must notify your municipal or local authority within one month.

If you take up a self-employed agricultural or forestry activity, you must notify your municipal or local authority within one month.

You must also provide the tax office with further information about your activity within one month. You do this by submitting the questionnaire for tax registration. This questionnaire must be completed and submitted online via My ELSTER(www.elster.de) or via commercial tax software - without an individual request from your local tax office. Electronic submission is mandatory for you. The questionnaire serves to ensure that the activity is recorded correctly for tax purposes,

You do not have to register your agricultural or forestry business with the trade office.

municipal or city administration and your local tax office.

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• They take up one of the following agricultural and forestry activities:

  • Agriculture
  • Forestry
  • Viticulture
  • Horticulture
  • to a limited extent animal breeding and animal husbandry
  • Hunting (in connection with an agricultural / forestry operation)
  • Ancillary agricultural and forestry holding

If a new tax number is issued (after checking the submitted tax registration questionnaire and the associated documents), you will receive notification of your new tax number. This notification is not an administrative act. Therefore, no appeal can be lodged against the notification of the tax number.

• Inform the responsible office of the municipal or city administration in personor in writing that you are taking up self-employment in agriculture or forestry.
• It is advisable to ask the municipal or city administration beforehand whether forms are available for the notification.
• The municipal or city administration will inform your local tax office that you are taking up gainful employment. This does not release you from your obligation to submit a tax registration questionnaire without being asked.

• You must complete the tax registration questionnaire online - at My ELSTER(www.elster.de) or using commercial tax software.

  Register for tax purposes online at My ELSTER(www.elster.de):

• Log in to www.elster.de with your ELSTER user account.
  1. Note: If you do not yet have an ELSTER user account, you must first register.
     Registration with an e-mail address is sufficient for submitting the questionnaires for tax registration. Once your tax number has been issued, you can upgrade your user account to a fully-fledged user account. You can find information about registration in the My ELSTER help. This can be found on the homepage(www.elster.de) in the header. You can also watch the video "Registering with My ELSTER" here.
• Then select the options "All forms" and "Questionnaire for tax registration" under the "Forms & services" tab. Then click on the tax registration questionnaire relevant to you.
• Navigate through the form menu and enter all the necessary information. If necessary, upload the required documents. Once everything has been entered, you can check the information for discrepancies via the "Check" tab. If everything is correct, send the questionnaire. You will then receive a confirmation of dispatch.
• The tax office will check your details. If necessary, you will be asked by your tax office to submit additional documents.
• You will then be notified of your tax number in writing.

Fee free of charge

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