German founders: is it possible to do bookkeeping by yourself?

2 points by frabia 17 hours ago

I'm opening a UG as I'm getting more interest in my SaaS (yay!). However, I'm going the bootstrapped way, and it really hurts having to pay a tax advisor 100+ euro/month, mostly just to upload some data to the Finanzamt. I will just make a couple of customer invoices per month, plus I pay for those 2-3 software tools - nothing crazy.

Is having a tax advisor really the only way? I've seen some tools to keep track of invoices etc, but most seem to still need a tax advisor for the last step. Is there any way to learn about this myself? Any tip is appreciated.

tom89999 17 hours ago

If you are creating, producing or whatever as a one-man-show, forget it. The time you need for bookkeeping or fighting with non-paying customers, you cant be productive. A tax advisor is needed if you are VAT-taxable. Forget the ads showing people doing their taxes on their mobile phones. That is not possible.