How can paper-based certificates in tax administration be quickly and easily replaced by a digital solution in the ELSTER environment? This question has been investigated by the project "Proof Platform ELSTER Self-Sovereign Identities" (in short: NESSI) of the Bavarian State Tax Office.

There are about six million taxpayers of retirement and pension age. They also have to file an income tax return if their annual income exceeds the basic allowance. With the new einfachELSTER service of the tax administration in the KONSENS project, there is now a special online service: with the service, many pensioners and retirees can complete their electronic tax return in just a few steps.

The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg is launching the MODUL-F digital construction kit, a joint project commissioned and funded by the federal government to drastically simplify and accelerate the development and deployment of internal software applications for the administration.

The National E-Government Competence Center e. V. (NEGZ) has a new board team and an adapted organizational structure since yesterday. The general meeting in Berlin also elected Roland Kreutzer, Partner and Head of Public Sector at mgm consulting partners.

The digitization of German government agencies now has a wide range of solutions: from analog forms that are digitized quickly and 1:1, to completely rethought services and processes. But how well these work is often not clear. A new short study by the National E-Government Competence Center examines the potential of process mining.

As the defending champion from last year mgm is once again up for election for the “eGovernment Computing Readers Choice Award”.