Liability of your tax advisor

Questioner

My wife and I always have our tax returns completed by an advisor. My wife recently received a letter from the tax authorities stating that she had a must repay an amount of 1221 euros. She must also pay an amount of 441 euros in healthcare allowance repayment. My wife had the first two She received unemployment benefits for months and worked as an employee the rest of the year. I have contacted our advisor by email and he says that the annual statement of the employment period is not in the file and therefore not included in the 2010 tax return. However, at the time (early 2011) I filed all the annual Scanned the assignments and sent them by email to our advisor. And this email, with I still have all the attachments (annual statements) on my computer. The annual statement of the wage employment was definitely there. So it is very clear that the The advisor made a mistake. My question is: Can I charge the advisor completely or partially liable for the back payments for 2010?

Questioner

Dear questioner, If you still have the email, you can prove that the advisor made a mistake, for which they are, in principle, liable. So, that's the good news in short. The question (which I cannot answer due to lack of information) is, however, whether your wife would not have had to repay the same amount if the information had been included in the tax return. In short: You need to consider what the situation would have been if the correct information had been used. Such an amount will be deducted from the amounts you specified. What you are then left with is the loss resulting from the advisor's error. yours sincerely,