To start entering the data and configuring a tax balance sheet in Tax Balance, you must first open the desired combination of individual company and tax balance sheet.

The overview of the chosen tax balance sheet is then displayed. From here, you can mark the individual process steps of the milestones as done or navigate to the individual workspaces to create the tax balance sheet.

Do one of the following to open the tax balance sheet to be edited at the individual company level in Tax Balance:

  • Under Companies, first choose the desired company and then the tax balance sheet you want to edit.
  • Under Tax Balance Sheets, choose the tax balance sheet you want to edit.

Only the combinations of company and tax balance sheet that were assigned in the master data when creating a tax balance sheet can be chosen.

After you have opened the tax balance sheet to be edited from the Company area in Tax Balance, the overview of the tax balance sheet is displayed as follows:

Shows the 'Overview' of the tax balance sheet '31.03.2026 (Steuerbilanz 2026)' for the company '10000 (Konzernmutter)' in Tax Balance with the areas 'Milestones' ('Annual financial statements' and 'E-Balance', both 'Not started'), 'Tax Balance Sheet' ('Balance sheet date', 'previous year', 'Taxonomy' and the 'More actions' menu) and 'Affiliated Companies'. Highlighted in red are the navigation tree labeled 'Overview', the 'Navigation bar', and the 'Milestones', 'Tax Balance Sheet' and 'Affiliated Companies' areas.
Tax balance sheet overview

The following options are available in the overview of an open tax balance sheet in Tax Balance:

Used to navigate between the workspaces used to configure and create the tax balance sheet

Navigation path to the company you are currently editing

Predefined milestones for tracking the process status.

For each milestone, a dialog shows the current status and the checks the milestone includes. In Tax Balance, a milestone passes through the following statuses:

  1. Not started
  2. In progress
  3. Plausible
  4. Done
  5. Checked

You set the next status using the corresponding button in the dialog, for example Set status 'in progress'.

In Tax Balance, the E-Balance milestone includes the following checks:

CheckDescription
Accounts and mapping availableImport accounts or create accounts manually. The accounts must have a valid mapping to a taxonomy item.
Balance sheet and income statement can be reconciledThe figures in the balance sheet and income statement components of the report are plausible.
GCD master data is completeThe GCD master data is fully maintained.
Test transmission successfulMake sure that the transmission of the e-balance sheet with test flags was successful.
Real transmission successfulMake sure that the transmission of the e-balance sheet without test flags was successful.
Shows the 'Milestone: 'E-Balance'' dialog in Tax Balance with the statuses 'Not started', 'In progress', 'Plausible', 'Done' and 'Checked', with 'Not started' active, and the checks 'Accounts and mapping available', 'Balance sheet and income statement can be reconciled', 'GCD master data is complete', 'Test transmission successful' and 'Real transmission successful', as well as the 'Set status 'in progress'' and 'Close' buttons.
'Milestone: E-Balance' dialog

Details on the tax balance sheet.

You can use the More actions menu to:

  • Close the tax balance sheet for further editing
  • Re-open a tax balance sheet already closed
  • Delete the tax balance sheet

List of tax group entities affiliated with a tax group parent.

This information is obtained from the GCD master data.

This content was generated using AI and reviewed by Lucanet subject matter experts before publication.