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Germany: FATCA newsletter outlines XML reporting, technical interface migration, and form storage issues

FATCA Newsletter 04/2026

june 12, 2026

The Federal Central Tax Office of Germany (BZSt) on June 1, 2026, issued FATCA Newsletter 04/2026, which introduces the following administrative and technical updates for reporting financial institutions.

  • Mid-July 2026 introduction of extensible markup language (XML) upload functionality for portal submissions
  • Technical transition of the customer test environment to a new technical interface (DIP) effective June 1, 2026
  • Ongoing technical investigation into online portal form storage issues

Read a June 2026 report prepared by the KPMG member firm in Germany 

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