Tax declaration 2025: This can (almost) everyone can deduct without evidence

Even those who have not collected any receipts and receipts can deduct a lot from the tax. The rather joyless effort is generally worthwhile: an average of 1000 euros will receive employees from their tax office.

Anyone who provides for this can participate in the costs. It starts with Contributions to Pension: The employee share for statutory pension insurance can be entered here. This can be found in the employer’s annual tax certificate. Anyone who (or alternatively) has also taken out private basic pension insurance (“Rürup” pension) can also enter these contributions. The deductible maximum amount for pension contributions is capped at 27,566 euros (for married duplicate). Simply enter all personal contributions, the tax office takes over the arithmetic.

Also the Employee shares in health and long-term care insurance everyone can stop. Even at unlimited height. The tax office shortens the registered sums by four percent, since a sick benefit claim, for the employee, does not include the basic protection. Purely tax. Tip: also the premiums for Private health insurance insurance can be asserted.

Do you have other private insurance? For example for cases of Private and/or vehicle liability, accident or Death? Anyone can also claim the contributions to these insurance companies. This also applies to deposits in private Life and pension insurance. All of these are – in tax German – “other other pension expenses”. Simply look at the insurance premiums paid for the whole year, enter, finished. Caution: Contributions to car insurance insurance do not apply for tax purposes, only the policy of liability of the policy.

Are you a member of one of the two large churches? Tax is great, because then you can be your paid Church tax Discontinue as a special edition. The numbers can be found in the employer’s annual tax certificate.

If you have also donated to non -profit organizations and organizations, or have paid membership fees to a party, all of this – from a tax perspective – are special expenses. If you want to assert such expenses, you should have the relevant receipts for the tax office.

they had Handyman in the apartment or in the house? For repairs, renovation, modernization, maintenance? Your tax office grants you up to 1200 euros in tax favor a year. 20 percent of up to 6,000 euros of the sum of all bills are deductible. The wage, travel and machine costs of the craftsmen can be deducted, provided that they have been shown separately in the invoice and paid by transfer. Simply read, add and enter these amounts from the invoices. The tax office takes over further computing. Important: Keep the invoices and associated transfer documents if the tax authorities require evidence.

According to this principle, the Treasury can also be used for costs for Household help Participate: Whoever helpers for cleaning, washing, ironing, snow sweeps, babysitting, etc., commissioned, saves up to 4000 euros taxes per year. 20 percent of a maximum of 20,000 euros are recognized. Tip: The domestic help does not have to be employed – the costs for the occasional support from the help can also be tax deductible. That can also be close relatives.

Important here too: Keep transfers to the household assistants – in the event that the tax office checks. A simple written working agreement is also helpful: who does what, how often and which hourly wages. The help may issue a monthly invoice about the services provided – then tax recognition should work. Attention: Cash payments, also against receipt, does not accept the tax office. A babysitting case example is explained by the United Lay Tax Aid Ev.

Every working person has so -called advertising costs – has set tax policy. Yes, really. Because everyone, according to the reason, does all sorts of effort to be able to properly investigate their work – and thus be able to pay taxes. A Checking account For example that the income is discussed. Calls from the private connection, which are initiated professionally. Or Contributions to unionsProfessional associations or to the chambers of industry and commerce. Also Travel costs to the workplace and costs for Applications are tax deductible.

If you do not want to list all of these and many other advertising costs, or simply have no evidence of it, the tax office grants a flat rate and 1230 euros in tax relief, also “Employee lump sum” called. This even happens automatically when the income tax return is billed. Anyone who has taken the trouble of collecting all sorts of evidence, listing it, adding and entering the system must end up over the lump sum – if not, it remains with the 1230 euros. But at least for everyone.