
Ohne PIN können Sie sich nicht am ElsterOnline-Portal einloggen und auch nicht auf Ihr Postfach zugreifen. PIN steht für persönliche Identifikationsnummer und kann daher nur Ihnen persönlich bekannt sein.

Your certificate will be valid for exactly 3 years, after that you will have to again go through the whole process and get a new one. pfx file (which is your ELSTER digital certificate) from that default location onto a USB stick and ideally into the same location on your new computer.

If you want to change computers, copy that. the path to where you saved the digital certificate, usually it's:Ĭ:\Users\your name, e.g.Or to submit your "signed" tax return with ElsterFormular. 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.):
