Good day, in addition to my main job as an employee, I have been working as a freelance voice actor since 2012. (I always take advantage of the small business regulation). Since I have mostly incurred losses, a few years ago, the tax office suspected...
Good day, I run a sole proprietorship and would like to purchase an office for it now. Currently, this office is rented in a multi-family house and the tenants should be terminated after my purchase. What needs to be considered for tax purposes when ...
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...
Dear Sir or Madam, I am facing the following difficulties when preparing the sales tax pre-registration for Q2/2020: a) I have sold a good to an Irish company and physically shipped it as well. I did not show any sales tax on the invoice, as the bu...
Dear Sir or Madam, I have a question regarding the value added tax return. I work as a freelance translator and was a small business owner until 2018. Since 2019, I have been submitting quarterly VAT returns, and the VAT is also debited quarterly b...
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...
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...
Hello, I need some general information about a single line in Annex N-AUS 2014. I am familiar with and understand all the other lines. DBA is confirmed here, my EU gross income is tax-free in Germany. Only the progression clause is taken into accou...
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 ...
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, this year I bought a plot of land with my girlfriend, each owning 1/2. Purchase price 140,000€ / 70,000€ my share Due to various financial solutions, my girlfriend's parents "advanced" the money. So my girlfriend received 180,000€ as an ant...
Good evening, I co-own a real estate portfolio in Germany with my ex-wife as a GbR. Each of us owns 50%. The portfolio was not subject to separation of property. We are both registered in the land register. Rental income flows into a joint account, f...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The question is, on whom it is best to allocate the profits from a GbR and who should be taxed on it. For this, we need to calculate the income tax for 2 persons. Profit of the GbR: 40,000 EUR Person A) Tax class 1, employed with a gross salary of ...
I have a question regarding the fee schedule for tax advisors: I receive an income tax assessment from my tax office, against which my tax advisor files an objection on my behalf. However, the detailed justification and statement for the objection ...
Dear Mr. Christiansen, Thank you for your advice, I have another question. Reminder of the key points: My husband and I own two apartments, each 50% / 50%. We will sign the gift contract for apartment No. 1 at the beginning of April and a few weeks...
Good day, I am employed subject to social insurance contributions by an external company and work there in the office until 11:00 in the morning. At the same time, I am the sole managing director/shareholder of my own limited liability company (UG) w...
Hello ...., I have a question regarding my tax assessment for 2018/2019. I have been on special leave since October 1, 2018. The special leave is valid until June 30, 2019 (so 3 months in 2018 and 6 months in 2019). There is no information on the ta...
I have a question regarding our non-profit organization and a future economic business operation. Background: Non-profit registered association since 2002. Tax number available. The association wants to start an economic business operation to financ...
My partner and I want to build a house. She will receive 140,000€ as an advance inheritance from her parents. With this, we want to buy the property together and both be registered in the land register with a 50% share. We will both take over the fi...
