Tax Knowledge for Your Tax Declaration

Tax Basics

• Am I obliged to file a tax return?
• Tax-ID and tax number - what is the difference?
• Which tax office is responsible for me?
• Do I need receipts and proof?
• Self-receipt: Emergency solution for missing proof
• Lump sums and non-objection limits: deduct costs without receipts

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Income

• Lohnsteuerbescheinigung: What is an annual payslip?
• When do I get my annual payslip?
• How do I enter the data from my annual payslip in the Taxfix App?
• Wage replacement benefits: What is it?
• Unemployment benefits in the tax return
• Short-time work and taxes: What you need to know

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Pension Income

• Can I use Taxfix if I have pension income?
• 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?
• Correctly deducting craftsmen's costs
• Correctly deduct household-related services
• Utility bill costs : How to deduct them

Work

• Double household: Deducting the second home from tax
• Income-related expenses (Werbungskosten): What are they?
• Lump sum for income-related expenses - Why is € 1,000, € 1,200 or € 1,230 included in my calculation?
• Professional training: How to deduct costs
• Correctly deducting computers and laptops
• Tax deduction for lawyer's fees and court costs

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Children & Family

• Children in the tax return: when to declare them and which costs you can deduct
• 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

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Education & Studies

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

Insurance & Pension Contributions

• 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?
• Insurances in the tax return

Health

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

Further Expenses

• How to deduct donations and membership fees
• Deducting funeral costs from your taxes