03.05.2022 | answered by Bernd Thomas
Hello Mr. Thomas,
since 1.2.2019 I have been receiving a company pension of EUR 213.18. (Total for 2019: EUR 2,346.00)
Additionally, from Feb 2019 to July 2019, I received a transitional allowance TA of 6 times EUR 2,097.38.
In my 2019 tax return, I ...
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07.02.2022 | answered by Bernd Thomas
Dear Sir or Madam,
My question concerns the *extended* limited tax liability in the context of the existing Double Taxation Agreement between Germany (DE) and Singapore (SGP).
- Singapore is a low-tax country (6.63% tax on income of 77,000 EUR)
- I...
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29.04.2021 | answered by Bernd Thomas
Are these the withdrawals from the cash register and all withdrawals from the bank account that I need for my livelihood?
Would it then be correct for a sole proprietor to simply record all business expenses as deposits and all business income (minu...
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07.01.2021 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Hello,
I am currently working on the tax return of an asset-managing GbR. We only have income from capital gains, from a foreign bank. As far as I know, to declare the tax for the GbR, only a separate and uniform determination declaration is require...
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10.03.2020 | answered by Knut Christiansen
I bought an old farmhouse in 2009. However, I sold the house in 2019, about 6 months before the end of the ten-year period. The tax office is likely to calculate capital gains tax. The question is how I can reduce the profit. The property was rented ...
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08.03.2020 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Is a claimed employee inventor remuneration paid to a UG subject to sales tax? The purpose of the UG is the exploitation and enforcement of employee inventor rights. If the claim is successful, there will be a one-time payment from a former employer ...
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02.03.2020 | answered by Knut Christiansen
I obtained my Bachelor of Physiotherapy with my first degree (31.08.2009 - 04.01.2013, Saxion University of Applied Sciences Enschede / Netherlands) and subsequently completed my Master of Public Health (01.04.2014 - 22.07.2016, Leuphana University L...
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15.02.2020 | answered by Knut Christiansen
How can I transfer the GmbH of a straw man to myself at the cheapest cost?
Background: The GmbH has a relatively high value. The proceeds from the sale would be quite painful.
My current recommendation is: Get married to a man and then receive it as ...
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13.02.2020 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Hello,
Scenario:
Person A is employed in an IT company. This company offers a commission for referring an IT professional (Person B). The commission (to Person A) is paid after Person B passes the probation period. The payment to Person A is taxed, ...
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04.02.2020 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Dear Sir or Madam,
the following situation: My wife and I bought and paid for a single-family home for our own use in August 2019. The house is financed by a loan. The transfer of the land register took place in January 2020. Due to a contractual ag...
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28.01.2020 | answered by Bernd Thomas
Hello,
on December 31, 2019, I deregistered my business (trade with electronic parts).
In January 2020, I sold remaining stocks of goods to my customers on Ebay.
How should the revenues for January 2020 be treated? Can I add these revenues to the bus...
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20.12.2019 | answered by Bernd Thomas
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am registered as a freelance consultant, but have been unable to work due to illness since 08/2018. Until 07/2018, I had revenues, but afterwards only incurred costs (including a home office in my condominium). Nevertheless, in ...
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02.12.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
I own a rented condominium (2 rooms, 80 sqm), whose lease has now been terminated. So far, the apartment has only resulted in a small surplus for tax purposes, because for social reasons (elderly, befriended lady) I had set a low rent and have not in...
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23.11.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Hello,
I have an urgent question regarding the speculation tax.
My father, who passed away in 2018, jointly purchased an apartment with my mother in 2004 for 240,000€, which was rented out to my grandmother. In their divorce in 2010, my father acqu...
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22.11.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
I am a sole proprietor (income taxed according to income statement, VAT registered).
A supplier of trading goods offers me the opportunity to purchase credit with him.
How is the acquisition of such credit treated in terms of accounting and tax law...
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21.10.2019 | answered by Bernd Thomas
Dear Sir or Madam,
I run a sole proprietorship in Switzerland and pay myself income from this to my personal German bank account (as I also live in Germany). Furthermore, I founded a UG in Germany last year. In 2018, I transferred 65,000 euros to th...
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04.09.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Unfortunately, I lost money in stock investments to a financial institution in Japan. The scammers disappeared with the money after a while. A report was made to the German public prosecutor's office but it was dismissed.
Thank you in advance for yo...
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21.08.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
In a first step, I am concerned with the question of whether the judgment of October 24, 2017 (file no.: VIII R 13/15) BFH is applicable to the insolvency-related quasi-total loss of ISIN AT0000A0U9J2 - WKN A1MLSS - Scholz Holding, Inh-Schv.V.2012(20...
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17.08.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
I have invested in a film fund that will be dissolved in 12/2019. The distribution due there is considered income from commercial business. Since I already sold a wind power fund 4 years ago, in which I claimed § 16 para. 4 EStG, I now personally hav...
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16.08.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Hello everyone,
my question is that I am an electrician and my company is based in Odhental near Cologne. It is about the shift work activity.
The TÜV doesn't know that we have a warehouse or an office where I only take my break. I work on the TÜV Rh...
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02.08.2019 | answered by Bernd Thomas
We (father, mother, son) want to establish a real estate partnership (GbR). The mother will contribute a mortgage loan (in her name) of €80,000, while the father and son will each contribute €10,000 in cash. We want to divide the shares of assets and...
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29.07.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Donation of a paid-off photovoltaic system (annual profit approx. 5000 euros) from grandfather to minor grandchild. Is this possible? Can the 2-year-old child act as a small business owner towards the tax office? Does a separate tax return need to be...
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29.07.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
We (mother, father, and sons) plan to buy a property as a GbR.
1) Does a pure real estate GbR need to be registered with the tax office (tax number)?
2) Can mortgage interest be claimed as a tax deduction if the borrower is not the GbR, but a shareh...
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25.07.2019 | answered by Bernd Thomas
Hello, I am a German citizen but currently living in South Africa. I have received an offer to work from home in Germany while being based in South Africa and sending invoices to the company employing me. I still have a bank account in Germany, but I...
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01.07.2019 | answered by Bernd Thomas
Good day,
How to deduct self-financed training costs for adult child from taxes?
Our adult child obtained the Fachholschulreife in August 2018 through the gymnasial leaving certificate after Class 11 and an immediately following "one-year guided in...
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