Tax return

Notification of change in the case of cross-border provision of services in regulated professions

You have notified the intention to provide services across borders in a regulated profession and have commenced the activity. If there is a significant change in...

Notification of cross-border provision of services in regulated professions Confirmation

Registration of Europe-wide commercial services in Germany

Tax return request

The tax office may request the submission of a tax return if it has indications that an issue is taxable. Anyone who has been asked to submit must comply with this obligation.

View electronic wage tax deduction features

The electronic wage tax characteristics used for wage tax deduction can be taken from your payslip and viewed in various ways.

Lock or unlock electronic wage tax deduction features for employees

You can have the wage tax deduction features (tax class, child allowances) blocked by notifying your tax office. Your company of employment will then tax your wages according to tax class VI.

Electronic payroll tax deduction features change

If your personal circumstances have changed - e.g. due to marriage - your personal income tax deduction characteristics will usually also be changed.

Marriage leads to a change in tax class

You do not want to keep the tax class combination IV/IV that was automatically assigned when you got married? If so, you and your wife or husband can apply for a change of tax class at your local tax office.

After the death of the spouse or civil partner, the tax class changes in the long term; tax class III can be retained in the short term

If your spouse or civil partner dies, you will be placed in tax class III in the year of death and the following year.

Applying for a change of tax class during marriage or civil partnership

As a spouse or civil partner, you have three possible tax class combinations to choose from. You are free to choose from these.

Permanent separation of spouses and civil partners leads to a change in tax class

You live permanently separated as part of a marriage or civil partnership? If so, the spouse-related tax class combinations are no longer possible from the year after the separation.

Change to the church tax deduction when joining the church

If you join or re-join a church, you are obliged to pay church tax. The procedure for this is largely automated.

Have address and personal data changed

If your address or personal data changes, you must notify us of the changed data.

Change to the church tax deduction when leaving the church

By leaving the church, the obligation to pay church tax no longer applies. The procedure for this is largely automated.

Assign main employer

If you are employed by several employers at the same time, you can determine yourself which employer is to retrieve the family-friendly electronic wage tax deduction features.

Change tax class after resumption of marriage or civil partnership

If you are no longer permanently separated from your spouse/life partner, you are again entitled to the tax class combination III/V, IV/IV or IV/IV with factor.

Apply for a change of tax class for single parents

As a single parent with at least one child in the household who is entitled to child allowance or child benefit, you can apply for the tax relief amount for single parents and thus for tax class 2.

Certificate for income tax deduction issuance

As a rule, the wage tax deduction characteristics are formed at the beginning of an employment relationship on the basis of an application by the employee (possibly by the employer) to the tax authorities.

Apply for a certificate for income tax deduction

Tax office can issue certificate for wage tax deduction if retrieval of electronic wage tax deduction characteristics (ELStAM) is not possible.

Taxing wages from another employment relationship with tax class VI

Wages from all other employment relationships are taxed according to tax class VI.

Confirmation of donation

If you would like to issue a donation receipt, you must use the official form.

Income tax assessment

Income tax is a tax on citizens' income.

Church tax fixing

In Brandenburg, members of the public religious communities receive 9% of the calculated income tax or payroll tax (5% for flat-rate payroll tax). collected and withheld as church tax.

Offsetting and reimbursement of deductions for construction work

You have provided construction services for a company or a public corporation and construction withholding tax was withheld on your consideration? Then you can apply for a refund of the tax withheld under certain conditions.

Tax deduction for construction services provided in Germany

You provide a construction service in Germany to another entrepreneur or to a legal entity under public law and they have to deduct construction withholding tax from the consideration? Then you can apply for exemption from the tax obligation.

Apply for tax-free allowances for children under 18

• For a child under the age of 18, you can claim a child allowance.

Apply for tax-free allowances for children over 18

• You can also claim a child allowance for a child over the age of 18.

Apply for a lump sum for disabled people

You can apply for a disability allowance for costs incurred due to a disability.

Apply for a lump sum for surviving dependants

In the case of survivor's benefits, you can claim a survivor's lump sum.

Apply for a lump sum for a carer

You can claim a care lump sum for care services.

Inheritance tax assessment notice received

• Taxable transactions
• Taxable acquisition as the basis for taxation (acquisition upon death)
• Material tax exemptions
• Personal tax allowances and tax brackets

Gift tax assessment received

• Gift tax assessment
• Taxable transactions
• Taxable acquisition as the basis for taxation (gift)
• Material tax exemptions
• Personal tax allowances and tax classes

Apply for a certificate of residence under a double taxation avoidance agreement

If you, as a taxable (legal) person, earn foreign income from a country with which an agreement to avoid double taxation exists, a certificate of residence may be required for submission to a foreign tax authority. may be required.

Apply for a business identification number (W-IdNr.)

When you start a business activity, you will be given a business identification number (W-IdNr.).

Apply for assessment for limited taxpayers

If you are subject to limited tax liability, you can apply for an assessment for income tax or corporation tax under certain conditions.

Apply for certification of old-age provision and basic pension contracts ("Riester" or "Rürup")

If you wish to market tax-incentivised old-age provision or basic pension contracts, you must first apply for certification for these and have this granted by the certification body - the Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt).

Apply for participation in the control reporting procedure for relief from withholding taxes

If you owe remuneration for the transfer of rights or certain capital gains, you can apply for authorisation to use the control reporting procedure in order to be able to withhold all or part of the tax under certain conditions.

Transmit futility message due to insufficient cooperation of contracting persons

If you were unable to enter the identification number of a contract person, you must transmit a futility message.