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<ManualTopic ID="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/DE0004" xml:lang="en">
   <Header>
      <Title>The electronic VAT declaration for Germany</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e82190">
         <Level1>Electronic VAT</Level1>
         <Level2>Germany</Level2>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>This functionality is specific for Germany.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>You can set up, prepare, and process the electronic VAT
		declaration required in Germany. The result of this procedure is an ASCII
		declaration file that adheres to the electronic VAT declaration requirements
		defined by the authorities in Germany, more specifically, the
		‘Vorsteueranmeldung’ which is part of the ‘Elster’ electronic VAT declaration.</Paragraph>
   </GeneralSection>
   <Important>
      <SectionTitle>Important!</SectionTitle>
      <Paragraph>The VAT must have been finally declared up to and including the
		period that precedes the first period of the combined declaration. Otherwise,
		not-yet-declared data from previous periods can be included in the declaration.</Paragraph>
   </Important>
   <GeneralSection>
      <SectionTitle>The selected VAT declaration lines</SectionTitle>
      <Paragraph>If you use the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/gld/tfgld1625m000#tfgld1226m000" role="command">Select Tax Declaration Lines</GUIRef> command in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/gld/tfgld1625m000" role="session">Tax Declarations (tfgld1625m000)</GUIRef> session to add the VAT declaration lines automatically
		to the VAT declaration, ERP Enterprise sets the status of the selected finalized tax transactions to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/domains/gld.wtst#selected" role="option">Selected for Declaration</GUIRef>, and enters the tax declaration ID in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/cmg/tfcmg1110s000#tfcmg104.txdn" role="manual">Tax Declaration Number</GUIRef> field of the tax transaction in the Tax Analysis
		(tfgld110) table.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>If you submit the VAT declaration in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/gld/tfgld1625m000" role="session">Tax Declarations (tfgld1625m000)</GUIRef> session, ERP Enterprise sets the status of the finalized tax transactions that are
		included in the declaration to <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tf/domains/gld.wtst#submitted" role="option">Submitted</GUIRef>.</Paragraph>
   </GeneralSection>
   <RelatedTopics>
      <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/DE0002" role="manual">To prepare the electronic VAT declaration for Germany</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/tf/onlinemanual/DE0003" role="manual">To set up electronic VAT declaration</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/tc/onlinemanual/000429" role="manual">Processing tax declarations</Link>
      </RelTopic>
   </RelatedTopics>
</ManualTopic>