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How to submit the Einkommensteuererklärung? Good explanation of deadlines is provided on this web site (German). This is extremely helpful if you’re moving to Germany - I hardly could have submitted any declaration after the first year of living here, that looked too complicated.Īt some point I’ve heard that if you start submitting the declaration voluntarily one year you have to meet the strict deadline for the next year, but I couldn’t find any proof in the law easily, so I consider it to be false assumption or there is some tricky clause around that- consult a tax advisor if it’s important for you. if you’ve submitted documents right before the deadline and they require additional clarification or documents, they’ll give you a few more weeks to do so).īut if you are submitting a Steuererklärung voluntarily, you can do so for the last four years (proof in the Abgabenordnung (AO) § 169 Festsetzungsfrist) which means that now (April 2016) you can still submit it for 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 years. If you’re obliged to submit the declaration, these strict deadlines MUST be met, but you can try to get an extension if you explain the reason to the tax services (e.g. If you’re using a tax advisor (Steurberater) they have a special conditions and can submit it before 31st December of the following year (so by 31.12.20 year). If you’re submitting form on your own, you should do so before 31st May of the following year (so by 31.05.20 year). For example, if you’ve moved from another city/country during the year or have kids - quite a lot, that’s really hard to make any estimates.įrom what I’ve seen on the internet the average is about 1,000 EUR, but can be more or less. There are some other conditions described e.g. For employees (or working professionals) the Pauschalbetrag would be calculated adding 1,000 EUR to yearly salary and getting increase in taxes paid from it (in comparison with normal yearly salary). This amount is used for administrative simplification, and it makes filling out simple declarations very fast because you don’t need to provide much data. There is also a very nice thing called Pauschalbetrag (a minimum amount of taxes to be returned, without providing detailed individual amounts or proof). And I definitely encourage you to do so, as it’s a nice yearly bonus for spending a few hours putting numbers in the form! Others are not required to submit it, but may do so to return some part of the taxes paid during the year. Please consult your tax services web site for more information (e.g. additional workplace, multiple sales of things on marketplaces, sales of securities, etc) or if you have a tax class which is not 1 or 4. You’re obliged by law to submit the income tax return declaration in case of additional income (e.g. As usual - everything is based on my experience of submitting income tax return for 20 years (and got a 2014 one successfully processed in the tax services with return rate of ~99.5% of what I have asked for). While there are a lot of specifics of filling out the declaration for each specific case, that would be very bad decision to overview all of the fields in this blog post (or even 20 blog posts), so I’d like to focus on tools you can use and some hints you can take advantage of.
And I’m not even talking about fun of dealing with it! As usual - I’m not a lawyer and not a tax consultant, if you have any questions or need more information I advise you to talk to them. It’s only a month till 31st May which means that millions of self-prepared income tax return declarations are going to be shipped to the tax offices soon all around Germany.Īs it seems I’m always looking for a trouble (aka more fascinating ways of doing something simple), and a few of my colleagues constantly encourage me to share experience on such workflows which might save you some time and money in Germany. Submitting an income tax return declaration (Einkommensteuererklärung) in Germany
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