If you want a card that you pay off with your pace, there is Advanzia (from Luxembourg).
Just didn't like not to have some kind of control. But now, some 12 years later it is more about it being for free.
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- Mon Apr 06, 2026 4:34 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: autopayment of bank credit card
- Replies: 14
- Views: 511
- Mon Apr 06, 2026 4:24 pm
- Forum: Berlin
- Topic: bikes on ÖPNV in Berlin
- Replies: 7
- Views: 265
Re: bikes on ÖPNV in Berlin
Since you are thinking of riding it a just one way, try going earlier in the morning by U-bahn. Before rush hour and return by bike. Easier to get a spot, and you will not stink in the office if you don't have a shower at work. Of course, if you are showering after the ride or before the next day tr...
- Tue Mar 31, 2026 8:23 pm
- Forum: Health insurance
- Topic: Anyone have an opinion on R+V Versicherung?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 184
Re: Anyone have an opinion on R+V Versicherung?
I have a Girokonto at Volksbank, so I could get a discount on insurance through R+V Versicherung. Does anyone have experience with them? You haven't specified what insurance you're looking for, so that is a tough question to answer. Consider "liability insurance" (Haftpflichtversicherung)...
- Sat Mar 28, 2026 8:20 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Joint taxation of spouses. Ehegattensplitting.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 271
Re: Joint taxation of spouses. Ehegattensplitting.
Does Germany know to increase income in any other way except by increasing taxes?
- Sat Mar 28, 2026 8:06 pm
- Forum: Bremen
- Topic: Bored in Bremen
- Replies: 23
- Views: 1139
Re: Bored in Bremen
Waiting for the rest of the alphabet.
- Thu Feb 05, 2026 11:49 am
- Forum: Phone
- Topic: dual US and German SIMS
- Replies: 22
- Views: 12202
Re: dual US and German SIMS
It looks like that it is 13GB per month now. I kept my T-Mobile number and have a German Telekom prepaid card that works in the EU and 🇨🇭(a must since I live on the border). I’m quite happy with it. Rather than paying 10€ a month I just pay 99€ in advance once a year. I text using WhatsApp. The Tele...
- Thu Feb 05, 2026 11:21 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Train conductor dies after attack by passenger
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4884
Re: Train conductor dies after attack by passenger
Sometimes a single punch can be enough. Head hitting a curb or something like that.
- Thu Dec 25, 2025 11:39 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: New private pension scheme is coming
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5986
Re: New private pension scheme is coming
We will have to wait and see.
Thanks for explaining.
Thanks for explaining.
- Thu Dec 25, 2025 8:47 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Actual costs for home office?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4719
Re: Actual costs for home office?
Thank you Panda.
- Thu Dec 25, 2025 7:38 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Swapping a mortgage?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7250
Swapping a mortgage?
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 ...
- Thu Dec 25, 2025 7:15 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Actual costs for home office?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4719
Re: Actual costs for home office?
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...
- Thu Dec 25, 2025 7:04 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: New private pension scheme is coming
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5986
Re: New private pension scheme is coming
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 ...
- Mon Dec 22, 2025 12:58 am
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: New private pension scheme is coming
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5986
- Mon Dec 22, 2025 12:54 am
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Irish "Approved Retirement Fund" taxation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9516
Re: Irish "Approved Retirement Fund" taxation
Thanks Panda, just checked there too
- Mon Dec 22, 2025 12:29 am
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Irish "Approved Retirement Fund" taxation
- Replies: 9
- Views: 9516
Re: Irish "Approved Retirement Fund" taxation
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 ...
- Mon Dec 22, 2025 12:23 am
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Actual costs for home office?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4719
Actual costs for home office?
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...
- Thu Nov 27, 2025 5:42 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: What made you smile today? :)
- Replies: 312
- Views: 228803
- Wed Oct 01, 2025 6:07 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: German Tax software?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13091
Re: German Tax software?
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...
- Mon Sep 29, 2025 10:51 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: What made you smile today? :)
- Replies: 312
- Views: 228803
Re: What made you smile today? :)
No sweets with processed sugar today.
Just a teaspoon of honey
Just a teaspoon of honey
- Mon Sep 29, 2025 10:34 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: German Tax software?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 13091
Re: German Tax software?
WooHooooooooo,
Submitted tax using Buhl!
Submitted tax using Buhl!