Taxy.io
German AI tax-research assistant that passed the Steuerberaterprüfung; acquired by Visma Aug 2025.
Primary
Tax Research
Kind
Tax Research
Raised
Acquired by Visma (Aug 2025)
Pricing
Per-seat SaaS; firm and enterprise tiers
Website
Each dimension is a composite of public signals. The Index is a weighted average; weights are published on the methodology page.
Where the tool plays across the 17-category taxonomy used by this index.
The system of record — chart of accounts, journal entries, trial balance.
Classifying bank and card transactions against a chart of accounts.
Matching ledger entries to bank statements; flagging discrepancies.
Bill capture, vendor management, approval workflows, payment execution.
Invoicing, dunning, collections, payment matching.
Accruals, deferrals, depreciation, task orchestration, review workflows.
P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, variance analysis, board-ready packs.
Income tax, sales tax / VAT / moms, nexus tracking, e-filing.
Documentation, PBC lists, evidence trails, auditor collaboration.
Wage calculation, withholdings, benefits, regulatory filings.
Inter-company elimination, currency translation, consolidated statements.
ASC 606 / IFRS 15 automation, performance-obligation tracking.
Corporate cards, expense policy, reimbursements, spend controls.
Forecasting, budgeting, scenario modeling, variance commentary.
Conversational query, report generation, and action-taking via chat.
Firm-side workflow, client portals, deadlines, CRM, billing, and team orchestration for accounting and tax practices.
Generative-AI research and memo-writing assistants trained on tax code, rulings, and case law.
Taxy.io is the most credible vernacular-German AI tax-research product on the market. The company has publicly demonstrated that the system passed the German Steuerberaterprüfung — the national tax-advisor qualifying exam — and received the user-award category of the 2025 Deutscher KI-Preis. That combination, a measured authoritative benchmark plus an industry user-vote award, is rarer in the European tax-AI space than equivalents in the US and gives Taxy.io a cleaner claim to trust than the generic-LLM wrappers Steuerberater practices see pitched monthly.
In August 2025 Visma acquired both Taxy.io and milia.io as part of a DACH tax-and-accounting stack strategy. The acquisition is the structural change: Taxy.io now has Visma's DACH distribution channel, which materially improves the traction and integration-reach profile without changing the research-first product.
Functionally, Taxy.io sits where Blue J sits in the US: research assistant, memo drafting over primary authority (Abgabenordnung, EStG, UStG, KStG, BMF-Schreiben), and question-answering over the user's own documents. It is not a ledger, not a workflow system, and not a Kanzleisoftware replacement; most adopters run it alongside DATEV, Agenda, or Stotax. The live competition inside Germany is Haufe's CoPilot Tax, embedded in the Haufe Steuer Office research platform, which reports that ~50% of its users now prefer the AI search path over the classical one — a signal that the shift to LLM-first research is happening fast at the German research-tool layer.
Local fit is essentially DE-only; that is also Taxy.io's product moat.
Citations
- Taxy.io — Deutscher KI-Preis 2025 (Nutzerpreis) / Steuerberaterprüfung referencevisionarydata.de/blog/ki-tools-steuerberater-vergleich
- Taxy.io product sitetaxy.io
- Visma — Taxy.io and milia.io acquisitions (Aug 2025)visma.com/news/visma-strengthens-offering-to-german-accountants-and-tax-advisors-with-two-acquisitions
- Futurum — Visma strengthens German presence with Taxy.io and milia.iofuturum.media/visma-strengthens-its-presence-in-germany-acquires-startups-taxy-io-and-milia-io