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Apply for a sales tax booklet
Service Description
As an entrepreneur who sells their goods in Germany at markets, on public roads or from door to door, i.e. who operates a so-called itinerant trade, you are obliged to keep a VAT booklet in accordance with the officially prescribed form and to record your sales and input tax there.
Competent authority
Tax office
Requirements
- Residence in Germany
- Personal appearance at the time of application
Which documents are required?
- Identity card or passport
- Registration confirmation as proof of residence
- Travel trade license, if available
What are the fees?
The VAT booklet is issued free of charge.
What deadlines do I have to pay attention to?
A VAT booklet must be applied for before the start of the activity.
What else should I know?
An exemption from the obligation to keep a VAT register applies if you:
- have a commercial establishment in Germany and properly comply with the record-keeping obligations or
- tax your sales according to the average rates for agricultural and forestry businesses or
- trade in newspapers and magazines or
- are legally obliged to keep books or keep books voluntarily.
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Technically approved by
Thuringian Ministry of Finance
Professionally released on
07.12.2023
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6Plus)
Competent Authority
Finanzamt Erfurt
Address
99091 Erfurt
Opening times
Our service center will remain permanently closed. During our service hours, we will answer inquiries about your specific tax case by telephone:
0361 57 3615-900
Service hours
Monday 08.00 - 12.00 and 13.00 - 15.00
Tuesday 08.00 - 12.00 and 13.00 - 15.00
Wednesday 08.00 - 12.00
Thursday 08.00 - 12.00 and 13.00 - 18.00
Friday 08.00 - 12.00
If a matter cannot be resolved by telephone, you still have the option of making a personal appointment with the person responsible.
