Hello, I have received a letter from the tax office accusing me of engaging in commercial activity. Small parts of my girlfriend's car were sold, and now I am being asked to file a tax return. I receive welfare benefits. How should I behave towards t...
Hello, I was employed subject to social security contributions throughout the year 2016. My earnings from this employment exceeded the tax-free allowance. In addition to this employment, I provided a one-time service (research and written expertise)...
Tax-wise feasible? Parents own a single-family house in City A, which is to become a second residence as the father works here. The main residence will be City B in a granny flat within the daughter's house, rented out to the parents at 72% of the l...
Question for Dipl.-Kfm. Frank-Olaf Illiges Thank you first of all for the detailed answer to my complex of questions. You have explained very clearly. Now further questions on the topic: If we as a GmbH give away wine to our own employees for 1. les...
How are success- or performance-based bonus payments that a trader can earn through social trading platforms such as Wikifolio taxed in Germany? In order for the question to be considered answered, please address all sub-questions 1-4. If you are un...
I purchased an intangible/virtual good (Playstation Network Card in the form of a code) from a private individual abroad for cash. Therefore, there was no receipt for the purchase. Afterwards, I resold these codes on Ebay to earn a little money. My ...
Dear Sir or Madam, I have been working as an independent architect for many years and provide my services primarily in my home office. In my house (built in 2010), an office was set up on the upper floor for this purpose, which is exclusively used f...
I envision the following corporate structure: A parent company owns a subsidiary. The subsidiary is operational and generates income. All costs and wages for the subsidiary are covered from this income. The final profit is transferred 100% to the pa...
Dear Sir or Madam, Recently, I read about the company ForestFinance (www.forestfinance.de) on the internet, which offers direct forest investments. In my case, I am interested in the so-called GreenAcacia project. In this project, a plantation is l...
Dear Sir or Madam, I am currently running a Minecraft server (Minecraft is a very popular computer game that allows each buyer to legally host a server). I am now giving players the opportunity to buy items in the game for real money. Currently, I ...
Hello, my girlfriend and I would like to sell self-made video clips over the internet. These clips will be uploaded to an international provider who takes care of sales and payment processing. As the uploader, we will then receive a share of the sal...
In 2010, I granted the owner of a horse pension stable a private loan of approximately 17,000 euros for the construction of a stable building where my horses were then housed. In 2010, around 1,000 euros of interest accrued (for the following years, ...
A European agency of a Chinese company is offering me a transaction business: they want to transfer about 5000 euros to my account, from which I should withdraw 4000 euros and buy paysafe or ucash vouchers, whose PIN numbers I should then email to th...
I have a stock corporation (My share 99%) in Germany and shares in a Slovakian k.s. (treated by the German tax authorities as a partnership) - If I gift shares in the AG to my children, how will the value of the gift be assessed? (Profit approx. EUR...
Hello, I need advice regarding the division or registration of my "businesses". The situation is as follows: - I am employed full-time. - I work part-time as a financial advisor with the small business regulation (max. turnover of 2000,-EUR per yea...
Hello, I help out occasionally at a dinner show, where I set up, take down, control the music, etc. My main profession is as an employee. Since the dinner show organizers are a GbR, they now want me to invoice them for my services. I receive 50 euro...
Since reaching the retirement age, I am no longer employed but working freelance in the same industry. I had revenues of up to 50,000 euros for several years and always fully deducted my home office (worth approximately 1,500 euros) as my only workpl...
In the case of a private loan, no repayment or interest payments were initially made, with the interest being added to the principal amount. Should the unpaid interest still be reported to the tax authorities, or only once interest payments have been...
Special expenses? Accommodation costs for my sister-in-law; my wife's sister. She used to live in the Viersen district. Her daughter lives in Bielefeld. When it became necessary to place her mother in a nursing home, she was able to secure a care p...
