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...
Hello, I am currently a freelancer (artist/music teacher registered with the Ksk) exempt from sales tax. To change my very uncertain situation (due to Covid19), I have decided to apply for a permanent position, which I have actually been offered. I...
My ex-partner and I have acquired several condominiums together and rent them out as a GbR (civil law partnership). Due to our separation, we now want to divide the apartments. Currently, each of us holds 50% of the GbR and also of the apartments acc...
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...
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...
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...
Hello, I am currently employed and have a home office in our own house (approximately 17 sqm out of 145 sqm living space). The home office has already been recognized by the tax office. I have read that the tax office calculates a value increase when...
Dear Sir or Madam, I am asking you the following question on behalf of a Polish acquaintance (residing in Frankfurt am Main). The acquaintance from Poland is working as a self-employed individual in Germany. She has a permanent residence here and h...
Hello, I am currently going through a divorce and separated from my wife in 2012. I own a single-family house, from which I moved out in July 2012. In 2016, I filed for divorce, which also involved a change in tax class to class 1 starting in Januar...
Hello I am self-employed and planning to have two apartments, one in Germany (currently) and one in Austria (Vienna additionally). Economically, my main center of life is expected to be in Austria in 2017 (70-80% of income). However, my personal ce...
I am self-employed and work in the offshore industry, spending more than 180 days a year outside of Germany. I have a wife and a house in Germany. When I have some free time, I go on vacation to Malta with my wife until I have to work again or there ...
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 ...
I am likely to work in Spain next year, meaning I will have a Spanish employment contract and receive my salary in Spain. However, I will commute to Germany on weekends and I also want to keep all my insurances (car, life insurance, private health in...
First of all, to the current situation. I have been married to my wife since August 2015. My nationality is German and my wife's is Greek. Currently, I am in tax class I. My main residence is in town A (Bavaria) and my workplace is in town B (Bavaria...
All my income (pension and income from freelance work under the French law for auto-entrepreneurs) comes from France and I have paid French taxes on it (22% for freelancers), but I am a resident of Germany. My freelance work is carried out only abroa...
I intend to buy a single-family house. In the basement there was a doctor's office, which has been unoccupied for about 4 years, as it was operated by the previous and now deceased owner of the house. I intend to rent out this part of the house again...
Inquiry I am a retiree with German citizenship residing in Germany, Kenya, with a severe disability and receiving a permanently constant disability pension from the Austrian insurance company in accordance with the Austrian Federal Law for Developme...
Dear Sir or Madam, We have acquired a holiday home that is permanently rented out - initially for 15 years. The condition was that we opt for value added tax and become entrepreneurs. The rent is therefore transferred plus value added tax. O.K. We ...
Dear Sir or Madam, I moved to Thailand on September 1, 2014 and will be living there continuously for at least the next two years (my wife works there / I am quitting my job in Germany). However, I have capital gains in a German deposit account. My ...
Dear Sir or Madam, Due to the closure of operations, I have transferred my company car into my personal assets. I received the input tax deduction for the purchase from the tax office at that time. The car had not yet been fully depreciated. So, I b...
Dear Sir or Madam, I am a German citizen with a permanent residence in France. My place of work is in Germany, where I am employed in public administration and taxed according to the cash-based accounting principle. The tax office responsible for me...
Hello, my wife and I are foreigners. My wife currently has a temporary residence permit. I have a permanent residence permit. We want to bring my wife's capital from abroad to Germany. This concerns money that has been taxed abroad and the property ...
Hello, I am German, have been living in Switzerland for 8 years, but still have income from a business in Germany. Therefore, I am subject to limited tax liability in Germany. The business has establishments in Germany, but also in Czech Republic. ...
Extinct Real Estate Partnership - new partner - transfer of 94.9% shares Father and son have a real estate partnership, father dies, shares pass to son (100%), the partnership is to be continued with a new partner (not a relative), but is it automat...
I am a student in the final semester (Psychology) and I am expected to graduate in spring 2014. I finance my studies with a permanent position at a psychological institute (employed subject to social security contributions). Additionally, I work free...
