

use your downloaded version of ElsterFormular and "sign" (that digital certificate is your digital signature) your Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung.


login to ElsterOnline () and submit your Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung (or your Zusammefassende Meldung if you need to) online, or.When you now want to use that certificate, i.e. You will now get a page telling you that the activation was successful: On the next page you will have to enter your address.Īs if they didn't already have it, if they hadn't you would never have received that letter with the Aktivierungs-Code to get this far in the activation process. On the next page, you have to confirm that you want them to save the certificate to a default place on your PC and you will have to define a PIN (= password) that you will use from now on (so write it down somewhere so that you don't forget it!).Įnter the Aktivierungs-Code again (quite redundant, but if they want it.):
