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by Frantic
Wed Jul 23, 2025 4:18 pm
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: Steuererklarung not mandatory if you dont change employee or not special income
Replies: 5
Views: 210

Re: Steuererklarung not mandatory if you dont change employee or not special income

we are both in class IV.

My concern is also that if, in the future, the missing Solidarity tax amount is discovered, I am anyway the one which should pay it and not my employeer
by Frantic
Wed Jul 23, 2025 1:24 pm
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: Steuererklarung not mandatory if you dont change employee or not special income
Replies: 5
Views: 210

Steuererklarung not mandatory if you dont change employee or not special income

Days ago I was venting a bit off with a friend about the fact that due to the new way Solidarity Tax is levied, me and my wife we always find ourselves owing a big amount of this tax in the Steuerklarung. This year for example is almost 1400 eur additional sum to be paid. At the end our steuererklar...
by Frantic
Thu Jul 17, 2025 12:26 pm
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: Change of Employer: Company Pension Fund
Replies: 1
Views: 161

Change of Employer: Company Pension Fund

I was not sure if Employment or this room was the right place for this thread. Soon or Later I will leave my current company. They provide a Pension Scheme. They put some money on their own in their Pension Funds and I can put small part of my salary there. By the way this Funds has a kind of guaran...
by Frantic
Wed Jun 25, 2025 10:46 am
Forum: Volt, Ampere & Watt
Topic: My Photovoltaikanlage
Replies: 64
Views: 17887

Re: My Photovoltaikanlage

How many offers have you got till now ?
Prices can vary according to the Land where you live. That offers is overpriced even for Greater Munich Area.
by Frantic
Mon Jun 23, 2025 4:17 pm
Forum: Volt, Ampere & Watt
Topic: My Photovoltaikanlage
Replies: 64
Views: 17887

Re: My Photovoltaikanlage

Here's today's quote, and some further information about insurance for solar panels. Cost 21,000 (inc. Vat as zero rated) This includes: 18 modules (440wp fullblack) FossEs battery 8,7kw FosEss 8er WR Rundumsorglospaket (scaffolding, fitting, fixtures, management module, labour, lightning protectio...
by Frantic
Tue Jun 17, 2025 9:42 am
Forum: Visa & residence permit
Topic: Family reunification with EU nationals through son in law
Replies: 13
Views: 6234

Re: Family reunification with EU nationals through son in law

I realized I did not update this.
Tkk accepted him.
by Frantic
Tue Jun 17, 2025 12:25 am
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: Not EU Citizen with 5y residence permit, pension from home, working in Germany
Replies: 2
Views: 198

Re: Not EU Citizen with 5y residence permit, pension from home, working in Germany

I guess I updated the other thread already weeks ago but yes, they accepted him (and his wife). He is paying the minimum (not for him) contribution, around 200 euro per month
by Frantic
Mon Jun 16, 2025 6:00 pm
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: Not EU Citizen with 5y residence permit, pension from home, working in Germany
Replies: 2
Views: 198

Not EU Citizen with 5y residence permit, pension from home, working in Germany

Hi, I try hoping anyone here is or knows someone in the same situation. My father in Law comes from an extra EU country. In his country he is retired and get around 500 euro/month of pension in local currency. For this reason he is in the no tax area for low income earners in Germany. He got a resid...
by Frantic
Wed Jun 11, 2025 5:43 pm
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: "Putzhilfe" - How to hire them right and Tax deductions
Replies: 9
Views: 1221

Re: "Putzhilfe" - How to hire them right and Tax deductions

In the meanwhile I gathered further info which should answer my above questions. I think she will need to register as Gewerbe a thing she will never do. I was convincing my self to propose her a minijob but then another doubt pop up. The fact she has already a main job does automatically put her out...
by Frantic
Mon Jun 09, 2025 12:36 am
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: "Putzhilfe" - How to hire them right and Tax deductions
Replies: 9
Views: 1221

Re: "Putzhilfe" - How to hire them right and Tax deductions

Hi Sorry if I may repeat myself but I want to be sure. As a "customer" is my responsibility to check just if in the invoice there's a Steuernummer but I don't have to check if it's real or if it is or not really related to the activity of cleaning service, right? Or maybe she can use the S...
by Frantic
Fri Jun 06, 2025 1:38 pm
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: "Putzhilfe" - How to hire them right and Tax deductions
Replies: 9
Views: 1221

Re: "Putzhilfe" - How to hire them right and Tax deductions

I resume the thread, after an year we found a candidate..... I still did not talk in person with her, just my wife who said she was keen to whatever form of payment (minijob, invoicing, etc). I dont think she know what would mean for her Invoicing us. She is doing this as a side job, she has already...
by Frantic
Wed Jun 04, 2025 4:49 pm
Forum: TV
Topic: Watching older TV shows, preferably in English
Replies: 11
Views: 593

Re: Watching older TV shows, preferably in English

Apart the usual suspects ( Big Bang Theory, The Office - usa version, Monk) I found really entertaining the ones below: - Superstore - Brooklin 99 - Ghosts - the usa version - Modern Family - Community (but it take a while till it grows on you) - Young Sheldon ( although the gran finale is extremely...
by Frantic
Fri May 23, 2025 6:27 pm
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: Taxation of "Auslandisch" Bonds
Replies: 1
Views: 243

Taxation of "Auslandisch" Bonds

This PDF is explaining me if the the country where the Bond is emitted will tax the Zins matured. https://www.bzst.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/EU_OECD/anrechenbare_ausl_quellensteuer_2024.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=3 What I can't find is the same information/table but related to the capital gai...
by Frantic
Mon Apr 28, 2025 7:36 pm
Forum: Miscellaneous
Topic: Additional dental insurance - do you have it?
Replies: 7
Views: 913

Re: Additional dental insurance - do you have it?

I don't have supplemental. I get 3 cleanings/year for free because I have gum disease. How long do you have to wait to use the insurance after you sign up? Hi It's OK if you prefer to not share this info but is it paradonthitis? I have it and my dentist said I can make just two treatments per year ...
by Frantic
Tue Feb 25, 2025 5:27 pm
Forum: German politics
Topic: German election February 2025
Replies: 11
Views: 14986

Re: German election February 2025

There is an evil and irrational part of me which doesn't stop thinking "and I even pay xxxx euros per year to these motherf**kers"
by Frantic
Fri Feb 07, 2025 6:19 pm
Forum: Volt, Ampere & Watt
Topic: PV Installation Hamburg Area
Replies: 10
Views: 18283

Re: PV Installation Hamburg Area

How many offers you got ? I am asking because when I did the same one year ago the offers were ranging from 14k to 27k euro :D , for the same kind of work :lol: It was a Wild West, with some companies still frozen in (their) golden time where they could ask numbers to customer. My suggestion is to k...
by Frantic
Thu Feb 06, 2025 2:50 pm
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: New (recalculated) land tax
Replies: 38
Views: 65249

Re: New (recalculated) land tax

So my Grundsteuer sensibly decreased. Thanks oh great free state of Bavaria ! :mrgreen: On the other hand I got a +50% increase in water fees. They explained it in a nice letter I received, talking about the age of the fresh water and waste water net, the need to mantain or in some case renovate it,...
by Frantic
Fri Dec 13, 2024 12:12 pm
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: New (recalculated) land tax
Replies: 38
Views: 65249

Re: New (recalculated) land tax

I did some research after I received my Grundsteuermessbetrag days ago. It looks like that in Bayern, conscious of the crazy values for properties, they decided to recalculate the Grundsteuermessbetrag in a different way in order to not have crazy increase of Grunsteuer. It is all just based on the ...
by Frantic
Tue Dec 03, 2024 10:53 pm
Forum: Taxes & finance
Topic: German Tax software?
Replies: 16
Views: 7922

Re: German Tax software?

Hi Panda I am interested to know why you consider smartsteuer inferior to buhl. Since I am in Germany I use smartsteuer because it was free for employee of Haufe. Few years ago I wanted to have a look to other alternatives and buhl I guess was one of this but I remember at the end I found smartsteue...
by Frantic
Thu Nov 28, 2024 2:21 pm
Forum: Health insurance
Topic: Private vs Public Health Insurance
Replies: 22
Views: 8668

Re: Private vs Public Health Insurance

Unfortunately our concerns about difference of service provided between Private and Public got confirmed in these days. We were looking for two different specialist and for public insured patient the waiting time is 2 or three months in the best cases (most of them can'T provide any appointment). An...