Tax Knowledge for Your Tax Declaration

Tax Basics

• Am I obliged to file a tax return?
• Lump sums and non-objection limits: deduct costs without receipts
• Do I need receipts and proof?
• Tax-ID and tax number - what is the difference?
• Joint assessment - What does this mean?
• Tax classes in Germany: An overview

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Income

• Corona bonus and inflation bonus: Tax-free support for employees
• How do I enter the data from my annual payslip in the Taxfix App?
• Real Estate and Your Tax Return
• Does the mini-job have to be included in the tax return?
• Unemployment benefits in the tax return
• Capital gains in the tax return

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Pension Income

• Can I use Taxfix as a pensioner?
• Rentenbezugsmitteilung: What is it?
• When is the start date of my pension?
• Can I claim income-related expenses as a pensioner?
• Pension income and employment? This is how you enter both in the Taxfix app
• Pension granted retrospectively? Here's how you proceed

Home

• Moving for private reasons: Which costs can I declare?
• Utility bill costs : How to deduct them
• Correctly deducting craftsmen's costs
• Correctly deduct household-related services

Work

• Double household: Deducting the second home from tax
• Work from home: How to claim your home office or study for tax purposes
• Privately used company car: How is it taxed and how is it entered in the tax return?
• Commute to work: How to correctly determine your place of work
• Additional expenses for meals: How to claim them with Taxfix
• Income-related expenses (Werbungskosten): What are they?

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Children & Family

• Child benefit and child allowance: What is the difference and how is it entered in the Taxfix app?
• Parental leave: Parental allowance in the tax return
• Childcare in the alternating model: how to enter it in the Taxfix app
• Children with disabilities in the tax return
• Tax return for single parents: How you can benefit from the relief amount
• Divorce costs: Are they tax deductible?

Education & Studies

• Tax return for students
• Do scholarships have to be declared in the tax return?
• Home office for students: These costs are deductible
• Education loan: Which costs can I deduct?
• Do I have to enter BAföG in my tax return?
• Tax return for trainees: This is how you deduct your costs as an Auszubildender

Insurance & Pension Contributions

• Insurances in the tax return
• Are contributions to occupational pension schemes entered in the tax return?
• Building savings contract and taxes: What is deductible and where can I declare it?
• Versorgungseinrichtungen: Tax deduction of contributions to pension schemes of professional chambers
• Riester pension: What do I need to consider and how do I enter it in the Taxfix app?

Health

• Tax return for people with disabilities: costs you can deduct
• Expenses for health and illness in the tax return
• Pregnancy: Which costs can I deduct?
• Außergewöhnliche Belastungen: What are exceptional expenses?

Further Expenses

• Income-Expense Statement (EÜR) – Simply Explained
• Tax Prepayments
• How to deduct donations and membership fees
• Deducting funeral costs from your taxes