--- id: topic/business-central/business-functionality/local-functionality/germany/vat type: topic title: VAT summary: "VAT functionality in the German version of Business Central: setting up and creating VAT reports (ELMA5 export), correcting submitted reports, declaring VAT-VIES, and configuring VAT and Intrastat report selections. 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It answers setup, submission and correction questions for German VAT reporting. Path: [Business functionality](../../../business-functionality.md) > [Local functionality](../../local-functionality.md) > [Germany](../germany.md) > VAT · tier official · system finance · narrative reviewed (checked by Opus) ## Overview This section covers VAT reporting for Germany. It includes local reports such as VAT Statement Germany, Sales VAT Advance Notifications and VAT Statement Schedule, and export to the ELSTER portal. Separate pages cover the ELMA5-based VAT report workflow, VAT-VIES declarations for EU sales, and report selection setup for VAT and Intrastat. A practical order is to start with the overview page, VAT Reporting in the German version. Then configure VAT report setup (numbering series, permission to modify submitted reports, ZIVIT information) and the report selections. After that, create, release, export and mark VAT reports as submitted. If a report needs adjusting or deleting, use the correction page. VAT-VIES declarations and Intrastat setup are handled on their own pages. Intrastat needs a submission channel, either IDEV or eSTATISTIK.CORE. ## Key points - VAT reports are created for the ELMA5 format, then released, exported and marked as submitted. - VAT report setup covers numbering series, whether submitted reports can be modified, exporting cancellation lines, and ZIVIT information. - Corrective VAT reports use cancellation and correction line types, with the Suggest Lines and Correct Lines actions. - VAT-VIES declarations for EU sales can be monthly, bi-monthly or quarterly depending on sales volume, with corrected notifications and migration to monthly reporting. - Local reports include VAT Statement Germany, Sales VAT Adv. Not. Acc. Proof and VAT Statement Schedule, with ELSTER export. - VAT and Intrastat report selections are set up in Report Selection pages, with XML and ASCII formats and material numbers for Intrastat forms. - Intrastat submission channels are IDEV or eSTATISTIK.CORE. ## Learn pages - [Correct VAT Reports [DE]](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/LocalFunctionality/Germany/how-to-correct-vat-reports): If you need to submit a corrective VAT report or delete an existing one, you must create a new VAT report. - [How to Create VAT Reports [DE]](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/LocalFunctionality/Germany/how-to-create-vat-reports): You can configure various types of VAT reports in electronic format to comply with ELMA5 format requirements. - [How to Declare VAT-VIES Tax [DE]](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/LocalFunctionality/Germany/how-to-declare-vat-vies-tax): Learn to create the VAT-VIES report for submitting sales transaction details with other EU countries or regions. - [How to Set Up Reports for VAT and Intrastat](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/LocalFunctionality/Germany/how-to-set-up-reports-for-vat-and-intrastat): Learn how to specify the reports used to create documents for submission to authorities, such as the VAT statement and the Intrastat form. - [How to Set Up VAT Reports [DE]](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/LocalFunctionality/Germany/how-to-set-up-vat-reports): Learn how to set up report parameters in Business Central to file a VAT report under the ELMA5 system. - [VAT Reporting in the German version](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/LocalFunctionality/Germany/vat-reporting): You can report VAT electronically to the tax authorities in the German version. ## Videos, posts and code changes Linked by a Haiku matcher with a grounding quote from the item's summary (link/topics.ts); machine-generated. - [#9734 [Master]-Performance issue when calculating the VAT advance return / VAT statement (Base Application, German environment) - Copy](../../../../../changes/bcapps/9734.md) (code change): "performance issue when calculating the VAT advance return / VAT statement" ## Business Central pages and reports The pages, reports and queries this hub's Learn pages name (ms.search.form, API reference), joined to the code by exact object id (data/index/docs-objects.json); a page shows the table it runs on. Learn also names 8 objects with no object page: page/11016, page/11017, page/11019, page/11025, page/11026, page/11027, page/11028, page/26101. Source: Microsoft Learn (CC BY 4.0). Descriptions are Learn's own.