I really don’t know why we are laughing in this picture.
We founded hackers&wizards GmbH on March 31st. The letter we are holding arrived late June. Almost three months for our Steuernummer.
In those three months, we had to send out the first invoices anyway. Clients don’t wait. So we sent them without a Steuernummer. Some came back rejected. We had to redo all of them once the letter finally arrived. That is a lot of rework that exists for no good reason.
The process gives you nothing to hold on to. No SLA. No estimated timeline. No confirmation that anything is moving. Everyone warns you it could take long. Nobody tells you how long, because nobody knows. You just wait and send invoices into the void.
There is a proposal on the table — the EU Inc — a simplified company structure that would let founders across Europe get started without this kind of friction. I hope it gains momentum fast.
But for now: we have our Steuernummer. And we have invoices to send. Thanks to all our customers for going through this patiently with us.