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Your selected location: Papenburg (268...)

Which place to enter?

The location is used to determine the responsible office for the selected administrative service. In most cases you can enter your place of residence to find the competent authority. However, there are also cases in which a different location must be specified. Here are some examples:

Birth certificateYou want to get married and need a birth certificate. You live in Hanover, but you were born in Celle. You must therefore state your place of birth, i.e. Celle.

Business registrationYou would like to register a business in Braunschweig. Your place of residence is Hanover. You must therefore state the location of your future business, i.e. Braunschweig.

Apply for a building permitYou would like to build a house in Wunstorf and therefore apply for a building permit. Her place of residence is currently Hanover. You must indicate the place where the house is to be built. In this case it is Wunstorf.

Donation receipt

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Expenses for the promotion of tax-privileged purposes within the meaning of §§ 52-54 of the German Tax Code (AO) can be deducted from the donor, taking into account certain maximum rates within the framework of income taxation. For this purpose, a donation receipt (previously donation receipt) must be submitted to the competent authority.

Tax-privileged contributions include donations and, under certain conditions, membership fees, including levies and admission fees.

Donations are voluntary contributions in cash or in kind, which are provided without legal obligation and which do not constitute remuneration for consideration. Tax-privileged gifts do not include services or the provision of possibilities of use. Unpaid work for an association or the free provision of rooms or vehicles are not donations.

Tax-privileged purposes are:

  • charitable purposes (§ 52 AO)
  • charitable purposes (§ 53 AO)
  • ecclesiastical purposes (§ 54 AO).

Charitable purposes include:

  • the promotion of science and research, education, art and culture, religion, international understanding, development aid, environmental, landscape and monument protection, the idea of homeland,
  • the promotion of youth welfare, care for the elderly, public health, welfare and sport; Chess is considered a sport,
  • the general promotion of the democratic state in the Federal Republic of Germany,
  • the promotion of animal breeding, plant breeding, allotment gardening, traditional customs including carnival, carnival and carnival, soldier and reservist care, amateur radio, model aircraft and dog sports.

Who should I contact?

The responsibility lies with the tax office.

Responsible authorities

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Finanzamt Papenburg
Address: Emdener Str. 15, 26871 Papenburg
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Telephone: +49 4962 503-0
Email: Get in touch
www: https://lstn.niedersachsen.de/steuer/finanzaemter/finanzamt-papenburg-67997.html

Applications / forms

The donation confirmation must be made on an officially prescribed form.

Which documents are required?

What else should I know?

Legal basis

Source: Serviceportal Niedersachsen (Portalverbund des Bundes und der Länder)

Further Links

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