OZG and digital administration: the online services

📖 Lesson ──▶ 🎯 Quiz — pick the translation ──▶ ✅ Lesson done

The OZG obliges authorities to offer online services: ELSTER for taxes, eID for the ID card, "Servicekonto" in cities. It works: tax return, child benefit, criminal record, vehicle registration. It fails: registration (some cities are in-person only), first residence permit. Problem: each state has its own portal. Start with account.bund.de — the BundID bundles services.

●ELSTER registration takes ~10 days — do it before deadlines
●The eID in the card is the free online identity
●A photo of the filled form — faster than postage

💻 Germany ranks 15th in the EU for digital services: in 2025 ~100 of 575 mandatory services run online.

🎯

Test yourself!

Practice the topic with the trainer — like after class

Quiz — pick the translation → 🖨 Worksheet

← Previous Next →