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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