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Thanks! That's much more helpful than what I got out of my tax advisor. (Perhaps time to change advisors!) So, to recap (correct me if I am wrong): 1) If we do not ever apply for Kindergeld, we really will be worse off forever. 2) If we do now apply for Kindergeld, we will be no worse off than had w...

Hi, Because we're terrible at admin, we never got around to applying for Kindergeld for our two children. However, my wife and I both have high enough incomes that Kinderfreibetrag ought to be better for us than Kindergeld (according to the graphs here https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinderfreibetrag ...