“Special expenses” (Sonderausgaben) used to be in the Mantelbogen of the German tax declaration. Now they have been taken out in a separate application Anlage Sonderausgaben. Lines are in a different order now.
Application content: chirch tax, donations, expenses for first education, maintenance of other persons.
Wolf, goats and cabbage – an old task in a new way. How do you combine a fully online high school kid, a part-time elementary school child, a dad in a home office who needs complete silence and not run around rooms, and an 11-month-old baby running around – in three rooms?
Fortunately, the hard work for solution of this difficult logistics challenge will be rewarded. The government allowed to write off days in bedlam home office at 5 euros per day.
More details about how to deduct home office expenses from taxes.
The landlord or management company have finally bothered to send you an annual calculation? So you can go to the household works deduction in german tax return.
Household works have now a separate Anlage Haushaltsnahe Aufwendungen (35a). It moved here in 2020 from the main part (formerly lines 71-78 Hauptvordruck).
Next part of income tax deduction in German tax return, among them the most important – deduction of expenses for work.
Not forget: außergewöhnliche Belastungen (Exceptional costs) are deducted, if they over individual limit.
How to calculate the limit of außergewöhnliche Belastungen read here
Other parts: A-D, E-H, I-N
Futher with all German tax deductible expenses. Not forget: außergewöhnliche Belastungen (Exceptional costs) are deducted, if they over individual limit.
How to calculate the limit of außergewöhnliche Belastungen read here
Other parts: A-D, E-H, P-W
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We go to the Anlage Kind. Anlage Kind – application for expenses for children in German tax return: Kindergarten, education (Ausbildung), Kindergeld and Kinderbonus.
Anlage opens if you mark it in Anlagenauswahl page.
In this post all tax deductions from E to H – from Education to Houskeeping Help.
Not forget: außergewöhnliche Belastungen (Exceptional costs) are deducted, if they over individual limit.
How to calculate the limit of außergewöhnliche Belastungen read here.
Other parts – A-D, I-N, P-W,
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From A as Additional education to D as Dysgraphia, dyslexia – all income tax deduction in German tax return.
If I write “is as außergewöhnliche Belastungen (Exceptional costs) deducted”, it means that this expenses are deducted only if they over individual limit.
How to calculate the limit of außergewöhnliche Belastungen read here
Other parts: E-H, I-N, P-W
When I ask those who already understand something in German and have lived in Germany for more than one year why they prefer to pay a tax consultant instead of filling out a tax return on their own, I am told that
1. there are no previous tax return as a sample and
2. they never know what deductible expenses there are – what if they miss out on some possible returns?
As answer on the second point, I decided to collect all possible deductible expenses in Germany.
But there is one thing, that you must know before we begin with the list: many of these expenses can be deducted only if they cross a certain border, and this border is rather big. This border is named Außergewöhliche Belastungen.
Second part of Anlage N of tax return in Germany is working expenses (Werbungskosten) – work clothers, books, home office, tax consultant, search for new work, etc.
In the first part we write off way to the work.
Beginning with Anlage N and costs of way to work
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