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GermanyBundeszentralamt für Steuern

BZSt ships FATCA newsletter 08/2026 and new protocol schema

FATCA Newsletter 08/2026 lets institutions file nil reports via the portal form and announces a new Verarbeitungsprotokoll XSD dated 7 October 2026, valid from December 2026, with four matching examples.

By Taxxa AI OyPublished 12 October 2026

Tax

Industry: Financial and insurance activities

The Bundeszentralamt für Steuern (BZSt) FATCA pages changed on 12 October 2026: the overview page lists FATCA Newsletter 08/2026Bzst, and the Rückmeldungen und Protokolle page lists the new protocol files. The newsletter's four topics are: nil reports can now be filed via the form; delivery problems with Verarbeitungsprotokolle plus the “In Bearbeitung” status in the BZSt online portal; an adjusted Datensatzbeschreibung; and a new Verarbeitungsprotokoll. The FATCA overview page added the 08/2026 entry to its current-news list.

The form-based nil report matters for institutions with nothing to report: instead of assembling an XML delivery, they can now submit the nil report through the BZSt online portal formBzst. The newsletter also addresses senders waiting on processing confirmations — delivery failures for Verarbeitungsprotokolle and the “In Bearbeitung” status in the portal after a submission.

The technical side is on the Rückmeldungen und Protokolle page. A new FATCA-FI-Lieferung-Verarbeitungsprotokoll XSD dated 7 October 2026Bzst Bzst, valid from December 2026Bzst, stands alongside the 3 August 2026 schema on the pageBzst, with four matching example files: a clean protocol, an E_MESS error at delivery level, an E_REP error at AccountReport level, and an error at transaction (Vorgang) level. The Datensatzbeschreibung stands at schema version 2.0.1 as of 7 October 2026. After a delivery and its reports arrive at the BZSt, the sender receives the Verarbeitungsprotokoll FATCA on the processing result; where the BZSt accepted a report and forwarded it to the US Internal Revenue Service, the IRS notification comes back via the US-EmpfangsbestätigungAnFI (UEFI). The error taxonomy distinguishes full rejection of a delivery (E_MESS) from rejection of individual reports (E_REP), alongside hints (I_MESS/I_REP) that need correction only on genuine discrepancies.

The Rückmeldungen page still carries a standing caveat: some documents predate the migration from the ELMA mass-data interface to DIP and from the BOP to the BZSt online portal and have not yet been updated for staffing reasons, though they remain usable as orientation. The Kommunikationshandbuch Teil 1 for FATCA is dated 9 October 2026 and covers transmission via the DIP mass-data interface. The documents behind this story are FATCA Newsletter 08/2026, dated 12 October 2026Bzst; the FATCA-FI-Lieferung-Verarbeitungsprotokoll XSD, dated 7 October 2026Bzst; the Datensatzbeschreibung at schema version 2.0.1, dated 7 October 2026; and the Technische Dokumentation Verarbeitungsprotokolle FATCA.

If you file FATCA deliveries, switch your protocol parser to the 7 October 2026 Verarbeitungsprotokoll XSD before it becomes mandatory in December 2026, and use the portal form for any nil report instead of building an XML delivery.

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GermanyBundeszentralamt für Steuern

BZSt ships FATCA newsletter 08/2026 and new protocol schema

By Taxxa AI OyPublished 12 October 2026

Tax

Industry: Financial and insurance activities