I'm a simple emigrant and I send the tax return at the last moment

As a representative of the first tax class I am not obligated to file a tax return, but I do it anyway because I plan to spend my whole life only getting refunds. For the first couple of years I filed through the Taxfix app, but then the case became too complicated for them, and I started filing myself through Elster. And the longer I live here, the further I delay filing this return, practically jumping on the last carriage before fines. But perhaps Frankfurt will soon free me from this hassle. The Frankfurt Tax Office launched a pilot project and promises to file the return for us! This year about 200,000 people will receive an automatic individual assessment offer for the 2025 tax return. These will be some simple and understandable cases for which the tax office already has all the data. Conditionally, workers with one straightforward job and standard expenses for health and social insurance or pensioners, etc. The Finanzamt (the tax office) says that it will offer a pre-filled declaration, in which the amount of the refund or additional payment will already be written, and a person can either accept or reject and file the declaration themselves, as they did before. No bureaucracy or shuffling of papers. Sounds, in my view, not bad. The tax office really already has all the data, why force people to enter it manually? Personally, I fill out the declaration with a calculator, the same Home Office can calculate it, and one could simply give them the initial data, and they would have calculated it there. Though my case is unlikely to be automatable right now, but to simplify – definitely. Last year the pilot project was launched in Kassel and 75% of those surveyed accepted the auto tax assessment. That's a good result, so the project was expanded, including to other states: Hamburg, Thuringia, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In general, among all local bureaucratic machines, the tax office, in my opinion, works better and more advanced than all. It’s understandable — they sit on a pile of our gold! To understand whether you have a chance, the Finanzamt offers to assess yourself by a traffic light (there’s an unhealthy love of traffic lights in Germany, right?). 💚Green: your income is exclusively salary, pension or benefit instead of salary, for example, for child care. 💛Yellow: you have dependent children or income from investments. ❤️Red: you are self-employed or a businessman, rent out property or have foreign income, basically everything that cannot be predicted. With my love of controlling finances, I would probably not fit into this story. Although, if I compared the results a couple of times, and by their calculations I would get even more than by my own calculations — I would gladly leave this to them. And would you agree to something like this? How do you currently file your declaration? translation of the image 👇 #useful #money #Ordnung #frankfurt