Overview

• Finanzamt Kassel will send automated “Festsetzungsvorschläge” to about 6,000 taxpayers who missed the July 31 filing deadline, starting at the end of August.
• Recipients have four weeks to accept proposals via ELSTER or submit corrections before the suggested assessments become official tax notices.
• Taxpayers remain legally obliged to file a return if the automated proposal omits reportable income or fails to capture all earnings.
• The pilot leverages existing employer and insurer data to prefill simple wage-income cases, aiming to free up scarce finance-office resources under staffing pressure.
• Hesse plans a statewide rollout pending pilot results, aligning with European precedents in Austria, Sweden and Estonia.