@fin.cx/tax 2.5.0 → 2.6.0

package/dist_ts/00_commitinfo_data.js

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  */
 export const commitinfo = {
     name: '@fin.cx/tax',
-    version: '2.5.0',
+    version: '2.6.0',
     description: 'German tax computation engine: UStVA Kennzahl aggregation from ledger balances with form rounding, Zahllast and reconciliation checks — exact cents'
 };
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package/dist_ts/smallbusiness.d.ts

@@ -30,14 +30,29 @@
  *   tax) and did not exempt the supplies but levied no tax on them; a year
  *   before 2025 answers `before_2025` and is not told.
  *
- * Not read: the BMF-Schreiben of 18 March 2025 (UStAE Abschn. 19.1 ff.),
- * which the BMF site did not serve. Two questions it answers stay open here:
- * the limit in the year the business starts, which the statute does not name
- * (`business_started_this_year` answers `unknown`), and whether the supply by
- * which the running year exceeds 100 000 € is itself taxed. The statute's
- * wording (the running year's Gesamtumsatz "nicht überschreitet") is read so
- * that it is: `endsWith` names the receipt at which the sum first exceeds the
- * limit, and every receipt from it on is taxed.
+ * The year the business starts: the statute names no limit of its own for it
+ * (there is no previous year). The reasoning of the Jahressteuergesetz 2024
+ * (BT-Drs. 20/12780, read on dserver.bundestag.de 2026-09-30, p. 183 f., zu
+ * § 19 Abs. 1) does: "Nimmt der Unternehmer seine gewerbliche oder berufliche
+ * Tätigkeit auf, ist § 19 Absatz 1 Satz 1 UStG mit der Maßgabe anzuwenden,
+ * dass der Gesamtumsatz im laufenden Kalenderjahr den Betrag von 25 000 Euro
+ * nicht überschreitet. Bereits der Umsatz, mit dem die Grenze überschritten
+ * wird, unterliegt der Regelbesteuerung." (Art. 288a Abs. 1 UAbs. 3 RL
+ * 2006/112 EG); "Die bis zum Zeitpunkt der Überschreitung bewirkten Umsätze
+ * sind steuerfrei." And zu Abs. 2: "Übt der Unternehmer seine gewerbliche
+ * oder berufliche Tätigkeit nur für einen Teil des Kalenderjahres aus,
+ * entfällt die bisherige Umrechnung in einen Jahresgesamtumsatz": a part of a
+ * year counts as it is, in the year the business starts and as the next
+ * year's previous year. The Anleitung zur Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung 2026
+ * (p. 8, Zeile 12) reads the founding year the same way.
+ *
+ * The supply by which the running year exceeds 100 000 €: the reasoning says
+ * the scheme no longer applies "ab diesem Zeitpunkt", and the statute exempts
+ * a supply while the running year's Gesamtumsatz "nicht überschreitet"; both
+ * are read so that it is taxed: `endsWith` names the receipt at which the sum
+ * first exceeds the limit, and every receipt from it on is taxed. Not read:
+ * the BMF-Schreiben of 18 March 2025 (UStAE Abschn. 19.1 ff.), which the BMF
+ * site did not serve.
  */
 import type { TCents } from '@fin.cx/calculation';
 /** The first calendar year of the version of § 19 UStG this module applies (Jahressteuergesetz 2024, from 1 January 2025). */
@@ -46,6 +61,8 @@ export declare const SMALL_BUSINESS_FIRST_YEAR = 2025;
 export declare const SMALL_BUSINESS_PREVIOUS_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS: TCents;
 /** 100 000 €: the running calendar year's limit (§ 19 Abs. 1 Satz 1 UStG) */
 export declare const SMALL_BUSINESS_RUNNING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS: TCents;
+/** 25 000 €: the running calendar year's limit in the year the business starts (BT-Drs. 20/12780, p. 183 f., zu § 19 Abs. 1 UStG) */
+export declare const SMALL_BUSINESS_FOUNDING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS: TCents;
 /**
  * What a receipt is to the Gesamtumsatz (§ 19 Abs. 2 UStG):
  * - `counted`: an Entgelt for a steuerbarer Umsatz (§ 1 Abs. 1 Nr. 1), taxed or
@@ -76,7 +93,12 @@ export interface IGesamtumsatzOfYear {
     totalCents: TCents;
     leftOutCents: Record<Exclude<TGesamtumsatzPart, 'counted'>, TCents>;
 }
-/** Why a year starts with the exemption or without it. */
+/**
+ * Why a year starts with the exemption or without it. `within_limits` and
+ * `business_started_this_year` start it exempt: the one by the previous
+ * year's Gesamtumsatz, the other as the year the business starts, which has
+ * none (its running limit is 25 000 €).
+ */
 export type TSmallBusinessReason = 'within_limits' | 'previous_year_over' | 'waived' | 'previous_year_unknown' | 'business_started_this_year'
 /** a year before 2025, under the version with other limits (`SMALL_BUSINESS_FIRST_YEAR`): not told */
  | 'before_2025';
@@ -100,9 +122,17 @@ export interface ISmallBusinessStatus {
     atStart: 'exempt' | 'taxable' | 'unknown';
     reason: TSmallBusinessReason;
     /**
-     * Where the year starts exempt and its Gesamtumsatz exceeds 100 000 €: the
-     * receipt by which it first does (its day, its place in the receipts as
-     * given, the sum with it). It and every later receipt are taxed.
+     * Where the year starts exempt: the running year's Gesamtumsatz up to which
+     * it stays exempt, 100 000 € (`SMALL_BUSINESS_RUNNING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS`), or
+     * 25 000 € in the year the business starts
+     * (`SMALL_BUSINESS_FOUNDING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS`)
+     */
+    runningLimitCents?: TCents;
+    /**
+     * Where the year starts exempt and its Gesamtumsatz exceeds
+     * `runningLimitCents`: the receipt by which it first does (its day, its
+     * place in the receipts as given, the sum with it). It and every later
+     * receipt are taxed.
      */
     endsWith?: {
         receivedOn: string;
@@ -118,7 +148,9 @@ export declare function gesamtumsatzOf(receiptsArg: readonly IGesamtumsatzReceip
  * Whether a calendar year's supplies are exempt under § 19 Abs. 1 UStG: from
  * its start where the previous year's Gesamtumsatz did not exceed 25 000 € and
  * no waiver is in force, until the receipt by which the running year's
- * Gesamtumsatz exceeds 100 000 € (`endsWith`).
+ * Gesamtumsatz exceeds 100 000 € (`endsWith`). In the year the business
+ * starts (`previousYearCents: 'business_started'`) from its start, until the
+ * receipt by which it exceeds 25 000 €, counted as it is, not as a whole year.
  */
 export declare function smallBusinessStatusOf(inputArg: ISmallBusinessYearInput): ISmallBusinessStatus;
 /** The last calendar year a waiver effective for `yearArg` binds (§ 19 Abs. 3 Satz 3 UStG: at least five calendar years). */

package/dist_ts/smallbusiness.js

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ export const SMALL_BUSINESS_FIRST_YEAR = 2025;
 export const SMALL_BUSINESS_PREVIOUS_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS = 2_500_000;
 /** 100 000 €: the running calendar year's limit (§ 19 Abs. 1 Satz 1 UStG) */
 export const SMALL_BUSINESS_RUNNING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS = 10_000_000;
+/** 25 000 €: the running calendar year's limit in the year the business starts (BT-Drs. 20/12780, p. 183 f., zu § 19 Abs. 1 UStG) */
+export const SMALL_BUSINESS_FOUNDING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS = 2_500_000;
 export const GESAMTUMSATZ_PARTS = ['counted', 'exempt_section_4_listed', 'exempt_ancillary', 'fixed_assets', 'not_taxable_here'];
 const isCalendarDay = (valueArg) => {
     if (typeof valueArg !== 'string' || !/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$/.test(valueArg)) {
@@ -52,7 +54,9 @@ export function gesamtumsatzOf(receiptsArg, yearArg) {
  * Whether a calendar year's supplies are exempt under § 19 Abs. 1 UStG: from
  * its start where the previous year's Gesamtumsatz did not exceed 25 000 € and
  * no waiver is in force, until the receipt by which the running year's
- * Gesamtumsatz exceeds 100 000 € (`endsWith`).
+ * Gesamtumsatz exceeds 100 000 € (`endsWith`). In the year the business
+ * starts (`previousYearCents: 'business_started'`) from its start, until the
+ * receipt by which it exceeds 25 000 €, counted as it is, not as a whole year.
  */
 export function smallBusinessStatusOf(inputArg) {
     assertYear(inputArg.year);
@@ -76,23 +80,23 @@ export function smallBusinessStatusOf(inputArg) {
     if (inputArg.waived === true) {
         return { ...base, atStart: 'taxable', reason: 'waived' };
     }
-    if (previous === 'business_started') {
-        return { ...base, atStart: 'unknown', reason: 'business_started_this_year' };
-    }
     if (previous === undefined) {
         return { ...base, atStart: 'unknown', reason: 'previous_year_unknown' };
     }
-    if (previous > SMALL_BUSINESS_PREVIOUS_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS) {
+    if (previous !== 'business_started' && previous > SMALL_BUSINESS_PREVIOUS_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS) {
         return { ...base, atStart: 'taxable', reason: 'previous_year_over' };
     }
+    const reason = previous === 'business_started' ? 'business_started_this_year' : 'within_limits';
+    const runningLimitCents = previous === 'business_started' ? SMALL_BUSINESS_FOUNDING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS : SMALL_BUSINESS_RUNNING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS;
+    const exempt = { ...base, atStart: 'exempt', reason, runningLimitCents };
     let sum = 0;
     for (const { receipt, index } of counted) {
         sum += receipt.entgeltCents;
-        if (sum > SMALL_BUSINESS_RUNNING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS) {
-            return { ...base, atStart: 'exempt', reason: 'within_limits', endsWith: { receivedOn: receipt.receivedOn, index, runningCents: sum } };
+        if (sum > runningLimitCents) {
+            return { ...exempt, endsWith: { receivedOn: receipt.receivedOn, index, runningCents: sum } };
         }
     }
-    return { ...base, atStart: 'exempt', reason: 'within_limits' };
+    return exempt;
 }
 /** The last calendar year a waiver effective for `yearArg` binds (§ 19 Abs. 3 Satz 3 UStG: at least five calendar years). */
 export function smallBusinessWaiverBindsUntil(yearArg) {
@@ -110,4 +114,4 @@ export function smallBusinessWaiverDeadline(yearArg) {
     const leap = (year % 4 === 0 && year % 100 !== 0) || year % 400 === 0;
     return `${year}-02-${leap ? '29' : '28'}`;
 }
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package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@fin.cx/tax",
-  "version": "2.5.0",
+  "version": "2.6.0",
   "private": false,
   "description": "German tax computation engine: UStVA Kennzahl aggregation from ledger balances with form rounding, Zahllast and reconciliation checks — exact cents",
   "main": "dist_ts/index.js",

package/readme.md

@@ -89,16 +89,26 @@ const status = tax.smallBusinessStatusOf({
   previousYearCents: tax.gesamtumsatzOf(receipts, 2025).totalCents,
   receipts, // [{ receivedOn: '2026-03-01', entgeltCents: 120000, part: 'counted' }, …]
 });
-// { atStart: 'exempt', reason: 'within_limits', endsWith?: { receivedOn, index, runningCents }, runningCents }
+// { atStart: 'exempt', reason: 'within_limits', runningLimitCents: 10000000, endsWith?: { receivedOn, index, runningCents }, runningCents }
 ```
 
 `endsWith` names the receipt by which the running year first exceeds
-100 000 €; it and every later one are taxed. A waiver (§ 19 Abs. 3) makes the
-year `taxable`; `smallBusinessWaiverDeadline`, `…BindsUntil` and
-`…RevocableFrom` give its dates. The year the business starts answers
-`unknown`: the statute names no limit for it. So does a year before 2025
-(`before_2025`), under the version with other limits (22 000 € / 50 000 €,
-with the tax). The rules cover businesses resident in Germany or the areas of
+`runningLimitCents` (100 000 €); it and every later one are taxed. A waiver
+(§ 19 Abs. 3) makes the year `taxable`; `smallBusinessWaiverDeadline`,
+`…BindsUntil` and `…RevocableFrom` give its dates.
+
+The year the business starts (`previousYearCents: 'business_started'`) has no
+previous year, and the statute names no limit of its own for it. The reasoning
+of the Jahressteuergesetz 2024 (BT-Drs. 20/12780, p. 183 f.) does: the running
+year's Gesamtumsatz must not exceed 25 000 €, and the supply by which it does is
+taxed already. So that year starts `exempt` (`business_started_this_year`) with
+`runningLimitCents` 25 000 € (`SMALL_BUSINESS_FOUNDING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS`), and
+`endsWith` names the receipt above it. A part of a year is not converted to a
+whole year any longer (same source, zu Abs. 2): three months with 24 000 € are
+24 000 €, in the year the business starts and as the next year's previous year.
+
+A year before 2025 answers `unknown` (`before_2025`), under the version with
+other limits (22 000 € / 50 000 €, with the tax). The rules cover businesses resident in Germany or the areas of
 § 1 Abs. 3 UStG; the new vehicles of § 19 Abs. 6 are not modelled.
 
 ## German VAT rates, dated

package/ts/00_commitinfo_data.ts

@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
  */
 export const commitinfo = {
   name: '@fin.cx/tax',
-  version: '2.5.0',
+  version: '2.6.0',
   description: 'German tax computation engine: UStVA Kennzahl aggregation from ledger balances with form rounding, Zahllast and reconciliation checks — exact cents'
 }

package/ts/smallbusiness.ts

@@ -30,14 +30,29 @@
  *   tax) and did not exempt the supplies but levied no tax on them; a year
  *   before 2025 answers `before_2025` and is not told.
  *
- * Not read: the BMF-Schreiben of 18 March 2025 (UStAE Abschn. 19.1 ff.),
- * which the BMF site did not serve. Two questions it answers stay open here:
- * the limit in the year the business starts, which the statute does not name
- * (`business_started_this_year` answers `unknown`), and whether the supply by
- * which the running year exceeds 100 000 € is itself taxed. The statute's
- * wording (the running year's Gesamtumsatz "nicht überschreitet") is read so
- * that it is: `endsWith` names the receipt at which the sum first exceeds the
- * limit, and every receipt from it on is taxed.
+ * The year the business starts: the statute names no limit of its own for it
+ * (there is no previous year). The reasoning of the Jahressteuergesetz 2024
+ * (BT-Drs. 20/12780, read on dserver.bundestag.de 2026-09-30, p. 183 f., zu
+ * § 19 Abs. 1) does: "Nimmt der Unternehmer seine gewerbliche oder berufliche
+ * Tätigkeit auf, ist § 19 Absatz 1 Satz 1 UStG mit der Maßgabe anzuwenden,
+ * dass der Gesamtumsatz im laufenden Kalenderjahr den Betrag von 25 000 Euro
+ * nicht überschreitet. Bereits der Umsatz, mit dem die Grenze überschritten
+ * wird, unterliegt der Regelbesteuerung." (Art. 288a Abs. 1 UAbs. 3 RL
+ * 2006/112 EG); "Die bis zum Zeitpunkt der Überschreitung bewirkten Umsätze
+ * sind steuerfrei." And zu Abs. 2: "Übt der Unternehmer seine gewerbliche
+ * oder berufliche Tätigkeit nur für einen Teil des Kalenderjahres aus,
+ * entfällt die bisherige Umrechnung in einen Jahresgesamtumsatz": a part of a
+ * year counts as it is, in the year the business starts and as the next
+ * year's previous year. The Anleitung zur Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung 2026
+ * (p. 8, Zeile 12) reads the founding year the same way.
+ *
+ * The supply by which the running year exceeds 100 000 €: the reasoning says
+ * the scheme no longer applies "ab diesem Zeitpunkt", and the statute exempts
+ * a supply while the running year's Gesamtumsatz "nicht überschreitet"; both
+ * are read so that it is taxed: `endsWith` names the receipt at which the sum
+ * first exceeds the limit, and every receipt from it on is taxed. Not read:
+ * the BMF-Schreiben of 18 March 2025 (UStAE Abschn. 19.1 ff.), which the BMF
+ * site did not serve.
  */
 import type { TCents } from '@fin.cx/calculation';
 
@@ -48,6 +63,8 @@ export const SMALL_BUSINESS_FIRST_YEAR = 2025;
 export const SMALL_BUSINESS_PREVIOUS_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS: TCents = 2_500_000;
 /** 100 000 €: the running calendar year's limit (§ 19 Abs. 1 Satz 1 UStG) */
 export const SMALL_BUSINESS_RUNNING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS: TCents = 10_000_000;
+/** 25 000 €: the running calendar year's limit in the year the business starts (BT-Drs. 20/12780, p. 183 f., zu § 19 Abs. 1 UStG) */
+export const SMALL_BUSINESS_FOUNDING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS: TCents = 2_500_000;
 
 /**
  * What a receipt is to the Gesamtumsatz (§ 19 Abs. 2 UStG):
@@ -83,7 +100,12 @@ export interface IGesamtumsatzOfYear {
   leftOutCents: Record<Exclude<TGesamtumsatzPart, 'counted'>, TCents>;
 }
 
-/** Why a year starts with the exemption or without it. */
+/**
+ * Why a year starts with the exemption or without it. `within_limits` and
+ * `business_started_this_year` start it exempt: the one by the previous
+ * year's Gesamtumsatz, the other as the year the business starts, which has
+ * none (its running limit is 25 000 €).
+ */
 export type TSmallBusinessReason =
   | 'within_limits'
   | 'previous_year_over'
@@ -114,9 +136,17 @@ export interface ISmallBusinessStatus {
   atStart: 'exempt' | 'taxable' | 'unknown';
   reason: TSmallBusinessReason;
   /**
-   * Where the year starts exempt and its Gesamtumsatz exceeds 100 000 €: the
-   * receipt by which it first does (its day, its place in the receipts as
-   * given, the sum with it). It and every later receipt are taxed.
+   * Where the year starts exempt: the running year's Gesamtumsatz up to which
+   * it stays exempt, 100 000 € (`SMALL_BUSINESS_RUNNING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS`), or
+   * 25 000 € in the year the business starts
+   * (`SMALL_BUSINESS_FOUNDING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS`)
+   */
+  runningLimitCents?: TCents;
+  /**
+   * Where the year starts exempt and its Gesamtumsatz exceeds
+   * `runningLimitCents`: the receipt by which it first does (its day, its
+   * place in the receipts as given, the sum with it). It and every later
+   * receipt are taxed.
    */
   endsWith?: { receivedOn: string; index: number; runningCents: TCents };
   /** the year's Gesamtumsatz over all its receipts */
@@ -173,7 +203,9 @@ export function gesamtumsatzOf(receiptsArg: readonly IGesamtumsatzReceipt[], yea
  * Whether a calendar year's supplies are exempt under § 19 Abs. 1 UStG: from
  * its start where the previous year's Gesamtumsatz did not exceed 25 000 € and
  * no waiver is in force, until the receipt by which the running year's
- * Gesamtumsatz exceeds 100 000 € (`endsWith`).
+ * Gesamtumsatz exceeds 100 000 € (`endsWith`). In the year the business
+ * starts (`previousYearCents: 'business_started'`) from its start, until the
+ * receipt by which it exceeds 25 000 €, counted as it is, not as a whole year.
  */
 export function smallBusinessStatusOf(inputArg: ISmallBusinessYearInput): ISmallBusinessStatus {
   assertYear(inputArg.year);
@@ -197,23 +229,23 @@ export function smallBusinessStatusOf(inputArg: ISmallBusinessYearInput): ISmall
   if (inputArg.waived === true) {
     return { ...base, atStart: 'taxable', reason: 'waived' };
   }
-  if (previous === 'business_started') {
-    return { ...base, atStart: 'unknown', reason: 'business_started_this_year' };
-  }
   if (previous === undefined) {
     return { ...base, atStart: 'unknown', reason: 'previous_year_unknown' };
   }
-  if (previous > SMALL_BUSINESS_PREVIOUS_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS) {
+  if (previous !== 'business_started' && previous > SMALL_BUSINESS_PREVIOUS_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS) {
     return { ...base, atStart: 'taxable', reason: 'previous_year_over' };
   }
+  const reason: TSmallBusinessReason = previous === 'business_started' ? 'business_started_this_year' : 'within_limits';
+  const runningLimitCents = previous === 'business_started' ? SMALL_BUSINESS_FOUNDING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS : SMALL_BUSINESS_RUNNING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS;
+  const exempt = { ...base, atStart: 'exempt' as const, reason, runningLimitCents };
   let sum = 0;
   for (const { receipt, index } of counted) {
     sum += receipt.entgeltCents;
-    if (sum > SMALL_BUSINESS_RUNNING_YEAR_LIMIT_CENTS) {
-      return { ...base, atStart: 'exempt', reason: 'within_limits', endsWith: { receivedOn: receipt.receivedOn, index, runningCents: sum } };
+    if (sum > runningLimitCents) {
+      return { ...exempt, endsWith: { receivedOn: receipt.receivedOn, index, runningCents: sum } };
     }
   }
-  return { ...base, atStart: 'exempt', reason: 'within_limits' };
+  return exempt;
 }
 
 /** The last calendar year a waiver effective for `yearArg` binds (§ 19 Abs. 3 Satz 3 UStG: at least five calendar years). */