Germany

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Overview

The Germany section collects the local features that German companies need in Business Central. An overview page lists the main areas: VAT reporting and declarations, German e-invoicing formats, delivery reminders for purchases, digital audit data export with GoBD filtering, and Intrastat. It names 2026 release wave 2 and 2027 release wave 1 as versions.

The details sit in four subtopics. VAT covers creating and correcting VAT reports and declaring VAT-VIES. Core finance covers digital audit exports, electronic invoicing and Intrastat export and printing. Purchasing covers delivery reminders for late vendor deliveries. General covers year-end currency adjustment with BilMoG valuation, EU sales list submission to the BZSt portal, company registration numbers on reports and the G/L Setup Information report.

One further page describes the Print Vendor Payments List report, which also applies to the Austrian and Swiss versions. Start with the subtopic that matches your task: VAT for tax authority reports, Core finance for audits and e-invoices, Purchasing for vendor reminders.

Key points

• VAT: set up and create VAT reports with ELMA5 export, correct submitted reports, declare VAT-VIES, and configure VAT and Intrastat report selections.
• Core finance: digital audit export (GoBD/GDPdU) and electronic invoicing in XRechnung, Peppol BIS 3.0 DE and ZUGFeRD formats.
• Intrastat export and printing are covered in Core finance.
• Purchasing: set up delivery reminder terms, levels and text, assign codes to vendors, generate or create reminders, print test reports and issue them.
• General: year-end currency exchange rate adjustment with BilMoG valuation and EU sales list submission to the BZSt portal.
• General also covers company registration numbers on reports and the G/L Setup Information report.
• The Print Vendor Payments List report (German, Austrian, Swiss versions) sorts by vendor or chronologically, with layouts for standard, FCY amounts or posting information.
• The overview page references 2026 release wave 2 and 2027 release wave 1.

Subtopics

• VAT (6 pages)
• Core finance (8 pages)
• Purchasing (8 pages)
• General (4 pages)

More Learn pages

• Germany local functionality: The following articles describe the local functionality available in the German version of Business Central.
• Print vendor payments list reports in the German version: The Vendor Payments List report lists payments for each vendor in the German version. It can sort payments chronologically or by vendor.

Videos, posts and code changes

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• #10048 Add GTIN to XRechnung and ZUGFeRD exports (code change): “GTIN codes from item cards are now exported to XRechnung and ZUGFeRD documents”
• #10342 Add GLN information to XRechnung and ZUGFeRD exports (code change): “German XRechnung and ZUGFeRD electronic document exports”
• #9078 Bug 624364: Intrastat DE groups detail lines by Country/Region of Origin (code change): “German Intrastat export now groups detail lines by both Tariff Number and Country of Origin”
• #9347 Fix IssueDate in E-Documents for Germany (code change): “Fixed the IssueDate field in German E-Document exports (XRechnung and ZUGFeRD formats)”
• #9690 Add XRechnung structured format reader for inbound e-documents (code change): “structured format reader for German XRechnung e-documents that parses inbound XML”
• #9955 XRechnung – Invalid XML Generated When Invoice Discount Percentage Exceeds 2 Decimals (code change): “XRechnung e-invoices with discount percentages exceeding 2 decimals”

Business Central pages and reports

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