German Elster Tax Filing

Overview

Use this skill to run a complete intake for a german personal income tax return in elster for tax years 2024 onward, estimate the tax result, and map the final values into the correct official forms and fields.

Read references/required-information.md at the start of every case. Use references/output-template.md when producing the final answer.

Workflow

1. Ask for the tax year first.
2. Determine which income and deduction categories may apply by following the checklist in references/required-information.md.
3. Keep asking follow-up questions until every required category has an explicit answer.
4. Review uploaded documents before asking the user for values that can already be extracted from those documents.
5. Verify year-specific rules, thresholds, deadlines, and line numbers using official public sources for the selected tax year.
6. Calculate the tax estimate and then produce a complete elster field mapping.

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