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Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) - The number of electronically submitted income tax returns in Hesse has risen continuously in recent years.
Their share was 75.8 percent in 2020, said Finance Minister Michael Boddenberg (CDU) on a small request from the FDP parliamentary group in the state parliament.
In 2016 it was only 59.5 percent.
In total, almost 1.7 million tax returns were submitted digitally last year (2016: 1.2 million).
There are also tax assessments digitally: "For the first time from the 2020 calendar year, all Hessian citizens can have their initial income tax assessment for the assessment period 2019 electronically announced."
Last year 45,490 of the income tax assessments for 2019 were made available digitally - 2.8 percent of the assessed income tax cases.
The ministry believes that the tax authorities are already well positioned in terms of digitization.
"The federal and state tax administrations are already working largely digitally."
From the submission of the tax returns with the Elster program to the processing of the tax case, the filing of documents in an electronic archive to the transmission of the notification, the process is digitized.
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According to the ministry, federal and state governments have been working together in a joint project on digitizing tax administration since 2005.
It is important that “there must continue to be analogue offers, since not all citizens without exception will be able to use digital processes”.
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