Wage tax allowance; application for it
You can already save taxes when deducting income tax if you have expenses that are expected to be incurred in the calendar year formed in advance as an allowance in the electronic income tax deduction features (ELStAM).
Description
The creation of an allowance as a wage tax deduction feature reduces the wage tax that your employer must withhold from your wages. The entry of an allowance is possible for the following expenses, for example:
- Income-related expenses from employee activities, insofar as they exceed 1,230 euros, e.g.
- Expenses for travel to work (so-called commuting allowance)
- Expenses for work equipment (e.g. technical literature, tools or typical work clothing)
- Travel expenses on the occasion of a so-called external activity (insofar as these are not already reimbursed tax-free by the employer)
- Expenses for professional training
- certain special expenses, if these exceed the lump sum of 36 euros for single persons and 72 euros for spouses/life partners, e.g.
- maintenance payments to the divorced / permanently separated spouse or civil partner
- church tax paid (except church tax on final withholding tax)
- Expenses for own first-time vocational training or first-time studies
- Childcare costs
- Extraordinary burdens, e.g.
- Allowance for special needs in the case of vocational training for a child of full age
- Maintenance expenses for persons entitled to maintenance by law
- Lump sum for persons with disabilities
- Lump sum for surviving dependents
- Losses from other types of income e.g.
- Commercial, freelance or agricultural activity
- Losses from a rented property
Prerequisites
The eligible income-related expenses, special expenses and extraordinary expenses must exceed the application limit of 600 euros.
Deadlines
The application can be submitted at the earliest on October 1 of the previous year for which the allowance is to apply. For consideration in the current calendar year, the application for wage tax reduction must be received by the tax office by November 30 of the year.
The tax allowance can be applied for two years at once.
Links to more information
Status: 14.03.2023
Responsible for editing: Bayerisches Staatsministerium der Finanzen und für Heimat
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