16.04.2020 | answered by Henriette Regulla-Schiessl
I am currently liquidating a limited liability company (UG). It is a straightforward case, as it has never been economically active.
The blocking period expired on December 3, 2019. The deletion is planned for next week. The company has remaining as...
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10.03.2020 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am currently employed at a GmbH based in Munich. Starting from 01.05.2020, I have signed a new employment contract with the holding company of this GmbH (in Nuremberg). I will also be provided with a company car (1% + 0.03% rule...
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21.02.2020 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Dear Sir or Madam,
I work as a freelance translator, and since last year I am no longer eligible for the small business regulation, which means I have to declare sales tax. I have already sent quarterly sales tax pre-registration to the tax office f...
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19.12.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
My wife is a housewife and I am an employee. Annual income around 100k EUR. We have a female dog that my wife wants to breed for the first time in summer 2020. Then once a year. We can sell the puppies for around 2,000 EUR each. Possibly adding a sec...
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28.10.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
My annual gross income is 94 thousand euros (previously tax class 3).
My wife's annual gross income is 27 thousand euros (previously tax class 5).
Due to a cancer diagnosis, I will no longer be able to work full-time in the future.
I plan to work...
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23.09.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Hello,
my grandparents (both around 90 years old) have lived in your single-family house in Dresden for many years. Unfortunately, they had to move to a nursing home (full care) in the neighboring city of Radebeul. We have re-registered them and cha...
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31.07.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
I am a freelancer and have 2 leased cars in my business assets. Apart from the leasing costs of the 2 cars, I have no significantly high expenses in my previously prepared income statement or in the monthly sales tax returns for last year.
1. Car
A ...
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31.05.2019 | answered by Bernd Thomas
Dear Sir or Madam,
I have some questions regarding entries in the Separate & Unified Tax Assessment.
The situation is as follows: GbR with 2 partners (self-employment, no trade)
One partner has made in-kind contributions (office equipment) and cap...
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26.05.2019 | answered by Bernd Thomas
Our daughter, 23, a student, received a share in a GbR from her grandfather in 2018 and therefore has to submit a separate determination. Her tax software indicates that she needs to enter a tax number and otherwise the submission of the determinatio...
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11.03.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Is there a chance of filing a lawsuit against the rejection ("gross negligence") of the amendment of an income tax estimate (without reservation for review) based on my rental documents submitted only 9 days after the deadline for objections? For exa...
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11.02.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Hello,
I am currently living abroad with my partner. In a few months, we will be moving to Germany and living together in a shared household. We have a child together who also lives in the household. We are not married. My partner does not work, she...
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29.01.2019 | answered by Knut Christiansen
Hello dear experts,
I have been to my tax advisor and would like to obtain a second opinion regarding the classification of my UG (German limited liability company).
The situation is as follows: I have founded a holding UG with the business purpose...
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16.01.2019 | answered by Bernd Thomas
Dear Mr. Tax Advisor,
since March 2012 I have been the owner of a condominium in Berlin. I have had my registration there and have actually been living there. However, as I am often away on business, I occasionally rented out my apartment through Ai...
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22.07.2018 | answered by Tobias Heinrich
My wife brought a 12-year-old son into our marriage. His biological father has passed away, so the 12-year-old child now receives a monthly orphan's pension of approximately 196 EUR. The deceased father did not pay any alimony before.
It is now quest...
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25.05.2018 | answered by Bernd Thomas
Since April 2017, my husband has been working from home (1st place of work in the employment contract). Now we would like to deduct the home office for the first time in the tax return for 2017. We purchased our own home in 2013 and have not previous...
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14.04.2018 | answered by Bernd Thomas
Tax legally appropriate wording for the notarial contract for the division of the purchase price of a house into movable objects, land, and building with regard to tax recognition for the maximization of depreciation allowances (BFH reference number:...
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24.03.2017 | answered by Oliver Burchardt
I am a freelancer, and I have purchased a 3-year-old used car with value-added tax, which I would like to include in my business assets. Estimated usage: 50-70% for business purposes.
1. Do I need to inform the tax office about the usage as an assig...
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15.03.2017 | answered by Udo Glinka
A third party has submitted the tax returns for our GmbH (on our behalf) for the year 2015. They have submitted the trade tax, corporation tax, VAT, and the balance sheet. The tax office did not consider the IAB, among other things. When we inquired ...
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01.11.2016 | answered by Oliver Burchardt
We are a GbR with 3 shareholders.
Currently, all shareholders are equally entitled to the profits of the company.
We now want to adjust the profit distribution so that only 2 shareholders are entitled to profits. The background of the redistribution ...
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07.10.2016 | answered by Frank-Olaf Illiges
Since last year, I own two multi-family houses. One of them had more maintenance expenses, which are expenses that can be deducted in the same year, than I had income from this house, resulting in a loss. What is the correct way to account for this l...
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30.09.2016 | answered by Oliver Burchardt
Dear experts, my question is:
we want to open a restaurant, there are 3 people (GbR already have a standard contract here). The license should only be applied for by one of us. This means that only one of us is the managing director to the outside, t...
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27.08.2016 | answered by Patrick Färber
Dear Sir or Madam,
I own a condominium which I would like to rent out at a reduced rate to my brother (a student).
From my point of view, it would be acceptable from the tax authorities if the living space is rented out above 66% of the local compa...
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31.07.2016 | answered by Frank-Olaf Illiges
Hello, my question is how tax payments work when you are employed full-time and also work as an escort on the side. In this Düsseldorf procedure, each date is billed at a flat rate of 25 euros, including taxes, which are deducted directly and handed ...
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08.06.2016 | answered by Patrick Färber
Good day,
I have been employed in a Swiss company since February 2014 and I also have an apartment in Frankfurt, Germany. During the week, I reside in a rented room in Switzerland, and I often travel back to Frankfurt on weekends. I have now submitt...
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29.05.2016 | answered by Patrick Färber
Dear Sir or Madam,
Below are my questions regarding the income tax return as an employee with limited tax liability in the year of moving out of Germany.
My Situation:
Since March 2013, I (German citizen) have been employed by a company in Thuring...
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