Meet your AI Tax Advisor

Accountable’s AI Tax Advisor is designed to support freelancers and the self-employed with their tax issues. Here are some of the ways it can help you:

1. Personalized advice: The AI Tax Advisor can provide you with tailored answers to your specific tax questions based on your data in Accountable. You can also turn it into a conversation on our tax situation.
2. 24/7 availability: You can access the AI Tax Advisor anytime for help. Especially on those bookkeeping Sundays…
3. Proactive Tax Checks & Tax Tips: While the conversational aspect of your AI Tax Advisor is important, its additional strength lies in automated tax encoding and providing tailored tax tips, trained on thousands of real cases – bringing a level of precision and expertise that’s built from extensive, data-driven experience, far beyond what manual approaches can achieve.
4. Automatic expense categorization: This helps you to better organize your finances and saves real time – with every expense.
5. Tax Guarantee: Accountable gives you the peace of mind of a tax guarantee for for your tax declarations submitted with Accountable.
6. The AI Tax Advisor has been specifically trained with up-to-date and comprehensive tax information based on tax laws, expert advice, and Accountable’s extensive tax knowledge database. It is additionally continuously refined by Certified Tax Advisors. This makes it a reliable help for self-employed individuals who want to manage their taxes efficiently and correctly.

We take concerns about data protection and the security of your personal information extremely serious. Here is some important information about the use of AI in Accountable

1. Accountable uses strict data protection and confidentiality rules for processing your information.
2. Accountable’s servers are located in Frankfurt, Germany.
3. Accountable recommends that you do not submit any confidential data if you have concerns. Instead, you can wait and speak directly to a tax coach. For more details on privacy practices, you can access Accountable’s full privacy policy here.

Yes, Accountable’s AI Tax Advisor can help you with your tax returns and Accountable offers a Tax Guarantee for your submitted tax returns. Here are the key points:

1. The AI tax assistant has been specifically trained with up-to-date and comprehensive tax information to provide you with personalized advice based on your individual situation.
2. It performs automatic tax audits to ensure that your tax returns are error-free and compliant.
3. Accountable offers a tax guarantee for every tax return in Germany by default. This guarantee covers:
   1. Help with any questions you receive from the tax authorities
   2. Coverage of additional taxes payable up to €500 (except for fraud and late submissions)
   3.  The guarantee is valid for 2 years after filing, regardless of whether you continue to have a paid subscription or not.
4. If you have questions that the AI assistant can’t answer, you can contact Accountable’s Tax Coaches. This combination of AI support and human expertise is designed to help you file your taxes accurately and stress-free.

More information about the tax guarantee can be found here

More details about the AI tax assistant can be found here

Yes, for many self-employed individuals, we believe the AI Tax Advisor can effectively replace the need for a traditional accountant—especially given how challenging it can be to find an accountant who accepts self-employed clients. Our AI is equipped to handle a wide range of everyday tax questions and tasks, such as advising on tax deductions or helping you understand correspondence from the tax office.

For more complex tax issues or specific advice concerning Accountable, our tax coaches are available through the app and typically respond within 24 hours. If you need more in-depth assistance, we also offer the option to book a consultation with a partner tax advisor at a fixed rate.
Additionally, Accountable provides a tax guarantee covering up to €500 in back taxes if errors occur due to the app.

While the AI and our tax coaches offer robust support for most tax-related matters, it’s important to remember that for highly specialized cases or strategic financial decisions, consulting a professional tax advisor may still be necessary. However, for the majority of self-employed users, our AI Tax Advisor simplifies tax management and reduces the reliance on an accountant.

No, it is an artificial intelligence (AI) that has been trained in German tax law and with thousands of questions from self-employed people from a wide range of professions. It is not subject to the requirements for legally recognized tax advisors in Germany. The AI tax advisor is available to every user via the “Accountable” app. The aim is to help both the self-employed and tax advisors to save time and access knowledge more quickly. Like any AI, it can make mistakes and needs to be closely monitored, including with the help of tax advisors.