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We will have to wait and see.
Thanks for explaining.

Thank you Panda.

We are paying a mortgage for an apartment in which we live in Munich. Now there is an idea to upgrade and buy a townhouse, again with a mortgage being involved. I've heard, but I am not sure of details so I am asking here, if it would be possible to put current mortgage into another one in order to ...

Thank you Panda. To be honest, I am not sure what I am. I don't think that I am a freelancer, GmbH or something like that. I am being paid by a US company (London office/entity). They are paying an accounting company in Berlin to do my pay calculation and they automatically pay my social contributio...

As I understand you, you get either a 30% match from the Government OR you get a tax reduction on those EUR1800? I am pretty sure our income after we stop doing what I am doing now will be way lower than now, so I would currently put into a plan that reduces taxes as much as I can. Especially since ...

murphaph wrote: ↑Wed Dec 17, 2025 5:23 pm "Up to €1800 per annum is subsidisable"

Is this pretax money?
Can more be invested after initial 1800 EUR, with no Government matching but as pre-taxed money from income?

Thanks,

Nixon

PandaMunich wrote: ↑Mon Dec 22, 2025 12:53 am

Nixon wrote: ↑Mon Dec 22, 2025 12:29 am Any news regarding this change?

Have a look here: viewtopic.php?t=766

Thanks Panda, just checked there too

Well what's being talked about is a helluva lot better than the Riester with its shitty returns and high costs. It looks like we may finally be able to invest in low cost ETFs in tax sheltered manner. At the moment we are saving for our retirement using ETFs in a non-tax sheltered way because even ...

Hello all, What are the costs that can be added to the calculation of the Home office expenses for the year of 2024? I have these: Home Depreciation: 2% of the (Home purchase price + Notar costs + Real estate transfer tax) - 50% (Land value) That would be: Absetzung für Abnutzung. After that I would...

Franklan wrote: ↑Wed Nov 26, 2025 1:27 am Somebody sampled >50 country songs with the phrase "cold beer" and made a new song out of it... Impressive!


I made a song entirely from 50 country artists singing cold beer.mp4

It is cold, cold beer.

Overall we are very satisfied. - Started with Test Buhl Wiso steuer version which is free to see how it goes. Printing the documents and filing are options that are not available in the test version, other stuff works like in a paid one. You can use software on your computer (pages couldn't be trans...

No sweets with processed sugar today.
Just a teaspoon of honey

WooHooooooooo,

Submitted tax using Buhl!

As expected, it is not available to everybody. Their reply: Guten Tag, You are interested in our direct depot. It's good that you're asking. It is so: The USA have significantly tightened their securities and tax laws. For us, this means: new requirements and documentation requirements, more effort ...

PandaMunich wrote: ↑Tue Aug 19, 2025 9:11 pm --> put what you can save into your ING ETF Sparplan instead.

Hello Panda,

Would that savings plan be available to US citizens? I've sent the a question, but I am not sure how soon should expect their answer.

Regards,

Nixon.

PandaMunich wrote: ↑Thu Aug 07, 2025 7:10 pm

Nixon wrote: ↑Thu Aug 07, 2025 5:17 pm Would that be 20k per year or lifetime or something else?

20k€ every 10 years: https://expertise.tax/en/faq-german-tax ... tance_gift

Thanks Panda.

Would that be 20k per year or lifetime or something else?

You can call it what you want.
It is a tax if I have to send more money to the Government due to something being applied in the calculation.

I have fixed mine, cousin’s and friend’s washers for free.
Where is my bonus
Both of them wanted to replace the machines since they thought that they have already passed the warranty time. Fixing them helped so much on polluting!

Thank you Sam and Panda. We appreciate your thoughts and information you posted. We are thinking of starting something. We would keep the property for a longer time, at least 10 years. Just thinking loudly, it is probably easier to have just one larger property than two, and sell it later on when we...