Steuerberater or mika: your cost comparison in 2 minutes

A Steuerberater bills by the German fee schedule, mika bills by transactions. Work out what that means for you.

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Steuerberater costs follow the German tax advisor fee schedule (Steuerberatervergütungsverordnung, StBVV), version BGBl. 2025 I No. 105. The estimate is a hybrid: the fee schedule as the basis, plus what we see in several thousand conversations with our customers. Where the schedule produces amounts practically no firm works for, firms bill by time, and then that experience value applies. All amounts are net, excluding 19 percent VAT. The schedule sets a fee range per service, and every firm picks its own rate within it. The calculator uses the Mittelgebühr, the middle of that range, and shows you the full range alongside. Your actual invoice may differ.

mika bills by transactions per month, not by revenue. mika is not a Steuerberater. mika does your bookkeeping. With mika you can put together your Jahresabschluss (annual financial statements) yourself, while accountants check the bookkeeping entries for plausibility. Many of our customers therefore no longer have a Steuerberater of their own and represent themselves. For tax questions we connect you with a Steuerberater from our network. More about what mika is and is not

Common questions about cost

A Steuerberater bills by the StBVV, the German fee schedule for tax advisors, and for work reserved to the profession, such as the Jahresabschluss (annual financial statements), they are bound by it. The fee there follows your revenue and your balance sheet total, not the actual work involved. mika bills by bank transactions per month, and the AI does the categorising. That is why ongoing bookkeeping starts at 49 € per month, and at 99 € per month with the Jahresabschluss included.

With mika the Jahresabschluss is included in the "Bookkeeping and financial statements" plan. The price follows your bank transactions per month:

  • up to 25 transactions: €99 per month
  • up to 50 transactions: €199 per month
  • up to 150 transactions: €549 per month

So a small GmbH with up to 25 transactions per month pays around €1,188 per year, and that covers the complete bookkeeping plus the Jahresabschluss plus all three big tax returns. A typical agency with 50 transactions per month pays €2,388 per year.

For comparison: at the mid-range fee of the StBVV, the German fee schedule for Steuerberater, a mid-sized GmbH with €2.5 million in annual revenue pays roughly €25,000 per year to its Steuerberater for the bookkeeping and the Jahresabschluss alone, and over €40,000 at the top end.

No. As a business owner you are always liable for your tax returns, with any solution. The Jahresabschluss carries your signature, and the tax returns are filed under your tax number. A Steuerberater is only liable for their own professional mistakes in the work they do, which is not a shield against your own liability as a managing director under section 43 GmbHG.

All data on German servers, GDPR compliant, AWS infrastructure in Frankfurt. mika is built along the GoBD principles for proper bookkeeping in electronic form. Authentication with two-factor (a TOTP authenticator app).

Of course! You can simply request a trial (at the top of the page). However, we recommend a short consultation call with our sales team. In it, we can give you a quick tour of the software so that you can get the most out of the trial time.

Important: However, mika only develops the full added value when we take over your entire accounting and you can fully concentrate on your business.

mika is a start-up from Berlin that has developed AI-based accounting software for other founders. Our goal is to give growing companies the opportunity to organize their taxes and invoices efficiently and without extensive accounting knowledge. Mika's AI tool supports all daily workflows in accounting, decrypts letters from authorities and shows where you can optimize and save your finances.

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