October 2026: TaxOrch for Germany and Belgium

In October 2026 TaxOrch gained what German and Belgian practices check first. These capabilities are rolling out to customers now; ask for a demo to see them on your own work.

E-invoices in the national formats#

• Receive and check. XRechnung (UBL and CII) and ZUGFeRD / Factur-X PDFs are read and checked against the EN 16931 and XRechnung rules. A plain PDF is flagged: since 2025 it no longer counts as an e-invoice in German B2B trade.
• Create. Invoices TaxOrch produces in XRechnung and ZUGFeRD are accepted by KoSIT, the official German validator, with no errors or warnings.
• Belgium. Outgoing invoices continue to be prepared in Peppol BIS Billing 3.0, the format Belgian B2B e-invoicing uses since 1 January 2026.

A clean hand-off to DATEV#

Approved journals export as a DATEV posting batch (EXTF Buchungsstapel). DATEV batches can also be read back in as proposed journals that still go through review. Drafts never leave, and an unbalanced journal is refused.

GoBD#

Retention dates under §147 AO (10 years for books, 8 for booking vouchers, 6 for business letters), deletion blocked by legal holds and open audits, a Z3 data package for the tax auditor, and the system part of the procedure documentation.

Returns prepared, ready to submit#

• Germany: the Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung as its boxes, with statutory rounding and the advance payment computed.
• Belgium: the periodic VAT return as Intervat XML, with grid 71 or 72 computed.

You submit with your own ELSTER or Intervat credentials; TaxOrch prepares.

Income tax#

• Germany, 2025 and 2026: from gross wage to final tax, including the employee allowance, special expenses, insurance contributions, the child-allowance check against Kindergeld, solidarity surcharge and church tax.
• Belgium: the federal scale, the tax-free amount as a reduction, child supplements, the marital quotient and the communal surcharge.

Tax IDs and languages#

German Steuer-ID, USt-IdNr. and Steuernummer, and Belgian enterprise, VAT and national register numbers are checked as they are entered. The app is available in German, French and Dutch, with local date and number formats.

What it does not do yet#

• It does not transmit returns to ELSTER, Biztax, Intervat or MyMinfin.
• It does not send or receive invoices over the Peppol network itself; that needs an access point.
• Belgian income tax does not yet include regional surcharges or tax credits.
• Belgian 2025 and 2026 rates are pending confirmation against the official SPF Finances tables.