User Interface of Income Taxes
Last updated on 2025-07-07
Overview
This page contains information about the structure of the user interface and the most important elements in Lucanet Income Taxes.
This article contains the following sections:
Structure of the User Interface
When you first open Income Taxes from your main menu, you will see the Lucanet Income Taxes application window.
In the menu, the various functional areas are displayed along with their workspaces and any folders and/or forms they may contain.
The following elements are available in the user interface:
Element
Description
Menu
The menu contains functional areas, workspaces, folders, and forms, and is used to navigate between the individual elements of Income Taxes.
The menu can be shown or hidden using the 
button.
Functional areas, folders
Functional areas and folders group together related workspaces and forms. A folder can include other folders.
Workspaces
Workspaces are the elements you can work on, enter, import, and edit data, figures, and other information.
Detail view
Details of a workspace. What is displayed in the detail view depends on which workspace has been chosen.
Search
Searches for workspaces or forms.
Forms
Forms correspond to the templates of the tax administration and must be completed for the purpose of electronic tax returns.
Structure of Income Taxes
Income Taxes is divided into the following functional areas:
Functional area
Description
Master Data
Maintenance of master data (e.g., countries, tax rates, companies, balance sheet structure, users, interfaces, etc.)
Company
Operational core area (calculation of current and deferred taxes) at the company level
(Sub-) Group
Group overview and organizational functions (e.g., consolidation for consolidated financial statements)
Reporting
Analysis area with various reports. You can also create individual reports in this area.
Further functional areas are displayed if additional modules (e.g., the Tax Questionnaire module) are licensed in addition to the base module. Information about available modules can be found under Modules and Additional Functions in Income Taxes.
General vs. Specific Functions in Income Taxes
In the workspaces of Income Taxes, both general and specific functions are available. General functions are available in many workspaces, e.g., adding comments, saving, export to Excel, etc.
All general functions are described in a separate article (see General Functions). All special, context-specific functions are described in the respective workspace article.