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If you wish to be exempt from German capital gains tax, you can obtain an exemption certificate under certain conditions.

Tax office can issue certificate for wage tax deduction if retrieval of electronic wage tax deduction characteristics (ELStAM) is not possible.

Foreign investment funds that generate taxable income in Germany can, under certain conditions, apply for a status certificate to reduce their tax burden.

If you are subject to limited tax liability, you can apply for an assessment for income tax or corporation tax under certain conditions.

You can claim the care of a child for tax purposes. You can find more information about this here.

Tax-privileged foreign investors in investment funds may, under certain conditions, apply for an exemption certificate for full or partial tax exemption of the investment fund.

For cultural assets worthy of protection, you can apply to the competent certifying authority for a certificate for the tax office on production and conservation measures and their costs.

If you, as a taxable (legal) person, earn foreign income from a country with which an agreement to avoid double taxation exists, a certificate of residence may be required for submission to a foreign tax authority. may be required.

As a spouse or civil partner, you have three possible tax class combinations to choose from. You are free to choose from these.

In the case of long-term care services, you can apply for a lump sum for long-term care.

In the case of survivor's benefits, you can claim a survivor's lump sum.

You may apply for a new social security card if you have lost your card, damaged it, or if it is no longer readable.

If you are employed by several employers at the same time, you can determine yourself which employer is to retrieve the family-friendly electronic wage tax deduction features.

If you no longer live permanently separated from your spouse/partner, you are again entitled to the tax class combination III/V, IV/IV or IV/IV with factor.

If you live permanently separated from your spouse/partner, the family-friendly tax class combination (III/V; IV/IV; IV/IV with factor) can no longer be taken into account in the year after the separation.

You don't want to keep the tax bracket combination IV/IV that is automatically granted upon marriage? Then you and your wife or husband can apply for a change of tax bracket at your local tax office.

If your spouse or civil partner dies, you will be placed in tax class III in the year of death and the following year.

If you join or re-join a church, you are obliged to pay church tax. The procedure for this is largely automated.

By leaving the church, the obligation to pay church tax no longer applies. The procedure for this is largely automated.

• You can also claim a child allowance for a child over the age of 18.

• For a child under the age of 18, you can claim a child allowance.

Have you provided construction services for a company or a public corporation and construction withholding tax has been withheld on your consideration? Then, under certain conditions, you can apply for a refund of the tax deduction.

If you wish to waive certification of a pension or basic pension contract for the future, you can declare a corresponding waiver.

• Gift tax assessment
• Taxable transactions
• Taxable acquisition as the basis for taxation (gift)
• Material tax exemptions
• Personal tax allowances and tax classes

If your address or personal data changes, you must notify us of the changed data.

Income tax is a tax levied on the income of individuals.

• Taxable transactions
• Taxable acquisition as a basis for taxation (acquisition by reason of death)
• Substantive tax exemptions
• Personal allowances and tax brackets

If you do not want your religious affiliation to be checked, you can make a blocking note. The blocking note obliges you to submit a tax return in order to pay any church tax on capital gains tax yourself.

In order to better assess tax consequences, you have the option of applying for binding information from the responsible tax office.

For costs due to a disability, you can apply for a disability lump sum.

Foreign investment funds whose domestic income was wrongly not taxed or under-taxed must report this and pay the tax in arrears.

If you are a foreign recipient (creditor) of domestic investment income, you may be fully or partially relieved of capital gains tax under certain circumstances.

If your company is obliged to deduct church tax, you can submit a request for the church tax deduction feature for your company.

For foreign special investment funds, you must submit a declaration so that the relevant tax bases for the taxation of your investors can be bindingly determined.

Are you providing a construction service in Germany to another contractor or to a legal entity under public law and they have to pay a construction withholding tax on the consideration? Then you can apply for an exemption from tax liability.

The electronic wage tax characteristics used for wage tax deduction can be taken from your payslip and viewed in various ways.

Wages from all other employment relationships are taxed according to tax class VI.

This does not apply to marginal employment.

This does not apply to marginal employment.

If you are single and your household includes at least one child for whom you are entitled to the child allowance or child benefit, you can apply for the relief amount for single parents to be taken into account (= tax class II)

If you were unable to enter the identification number of a contract person, you must transmit a futility message.

If you remunerate services provided by service providers living abroad, you must withhold, declare and pay income tax for them under certain circumstances.

Here you can find out how to avoid a capital gains tax deduction.

Your main customs office can appoint a tax assistant at your request under certain conditions. This person can establish facts under customs or excise law that relate to your company's goods.

Apply for a tax number to register and pay insurance or fire protection tax.

Customs can temporarily defer your tax debts if immediate payment would be a major burden for you.

If you become subject to compulsory insurance in the statutory health insurance, you can be exempted from this in certain cases. You submit the application to your statutory health insurance fund.

If you make use of special official acts by the customs administration, you may have to pay fees and expenses.

Your company's tax obligations can be fulfilled by tax representatives. You submit an application for the appointment of tax representatives to the main customs office responsible for you.

Do you extract water from a surface water body or from groundwater, or do you extract or discharge groundwater? If so, a fee must be paid to the respective federal state.

Do you extract water from surface waters or groundwater or pump or discharge groundwater? Then a fee must be paid to the respective federal state.

Has your professional situation changed in such a way that you expect a different income from your self-employed artistic or journalistic work? Then you need to adjust your income estimate with the Artists' Social Insurance Fund.

If you as an individual or your company have business relationships or shareholdings relating to a non-cooperative tax jurisdiction, you must provide certain information to the tax office and, if applicable, the Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt).

If you want to register or change your tax number or tax identification number to use the Internet EMCS application, you must submit an application to the Directorate General of Customs.

If you have to pay electricity tax, you submit a tax return to the relevant main customs office in which you calculate the tax yourself. This is known as a tax declaration.

Grants that you receive from the Artists' Social Security Fund are finally settled in the following year.

The contribution that each and every legally insured person has to pay for long-term care insurance is regulated by law.

If you have statutory health and long-term care insurance through the Künstlersozialkasse, you can change your health insurance fund under certain conditions.

If you are not only self-employed as an artist or journalist but also carry out other activities or receive social benefits, you must report this to the Künstlersozialkasse.

If your personal data changes, you must inform the Künstlersozialkasse. You should also inform the Künstlersozialkasse if your contact details change or expand.

If you stay or work abroad for a longer period of time, this may affect your German social insurance. You must notify the Künstlersozialkasse of any change in your situation in good time.

Do you receive a pension from the statutory pension insurance? Then this has an effect on your insurance status in the artists' social insurance.

If you change the legal form of your activity or the activity itself, this may affect your obligation to be insured with the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK).

Property tax is a municipal tax levied on real property located within the municipality.

If you carry out a legal transaction that relates to a domestic property, it is subject to real estate transfer tax.

If you are unable to work due to illness or pregnancy and receive compensation from another source, you do not have to pay social security contributions via the Artists' Social Security Fund.

If you are the owner of real estate (or, in the new federal states, the user of agricultural and forestry property) that is not exempt from real estate tax, the tax office will issue a real estate tax assessment notice to you.

Property tax is a municipal tax levied on real property located within the municipality.

Airlines that carry out commercial passenger air traffic and transport passengers from German airports to destinations must register and pay the air traffic tax.

Air carriers are obliged to register for air transport tax with the competent main customs office. Tax agents for air transport companies must apply for a permit from the competent main customs office.

If you as an insurer receive fees for fire insurance, residential building or household contents insurance, you must calculate the fire protection tax yourself and register it with the Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt).

If you receive insurance premiums, you must calculate the insurance tax yourself and register it with the Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt).

If you wish to organize race betting, public lotteries and draws or sports betting and this has been approved by the competent authority, you are obliged to declare and pay the tax arising thereon to the competent tax office.

If you pay too much into your pension insurance, you will receive a refund.

If you are insured through the artists' social security fund, you must submit an annual income estimate.

If you are subject to compulsory insurance or entitled to a subsidy via the artists' social security fund, you will receive proof of your insurance for each year.

As an artist or publicist, you can register for social security via the Artists’ Social Security Fund (KSK).

As an employer, you are obliged in certain sectors to register your employees with social insurance before they take up employment.

Those who have a minor job earning less than EUR 450 are not subject to health insurance.

If you have received preferential treatment or relief for electricity or energy tax, you must report this to the customs administration in certain cases.

If you as an individual or company pay for services from a service provider based in a non-cooperative tax jurisdiction, under certain circumstances you must withhold, declare and pay a portion of your payments as income or corporation tax.