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- Mon Oct 06, 2025 4:05 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Bundesbank Reporting - Transfer of Money UK to DE
- Replies: 5
- Views: 171
Re: Bundesbank Reporting - Transfer of Money UK to DE
We have just sold our house in the UK and now need to transfer the funds (approx €150k in total) from TSB to Sparkasse. Can I confirm that I DO NOT need to notify the Bundesbank as both accounts are in the same name? You don't need to report the transfers, but you have to report the earlier transac...
- Sun Oct 05, 2025 10:51 pm
- Forum: Visa & residence permit
- Topic: Niederlassungserlaubnis, „Leben in Deutschland“ test online?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2115
Re: Why are you happy today?
** ausgefülltes Formular Prüfungsbericht zusammen mit den darin genannten Unterlagen (Der Prüfungsbericht muss ausgefüllt werden durch Steuerberater, Wirtschaftsprüfer oder Steuerbevollmächtigte.) und The only city I've had caseworkers ask for a Prüfungsbericht (a lot of work, they ask for monthly ...
- Wed Sep 24, 2025 11:39 am
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Umsatzsteuer reminder - Doch I have already submitted it !!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 128
Re: Umsatzsteuer reminder - Doch I have already submitted it !!
In ELSTER, there is a section "Meine Formulare". There, go into the tab "Übermittelte Formulare". SmartSelect_20250924_113422_Chrome.jpg Find the transmitted Umsatzsteuererklärung 2023 in that list, click on it and then on the bottom choose "Herunterladen --> PDF". Send...
- Tue Sep 23, 2025 1:04 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Capital Gains on selling house
- Replies: 2
- Views: 153
Re: Capital Gains on selling house
Since she has owned it for more than 10 years, she does not need to mention the sale at all in her tax return, since it is not steuerbar.
- Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:47 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Steuererklärung: Cost of supporting hosted parents with very low income.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1175
Re: Steuererklärung: Cost of supporting hosted parents with very low income.
My father in law has the small pension mentioned above and Pflegegeld and Blindengeld (which in Brandenburg reduces the Pflegegeld). Do Pflegegeld and/or Blindengeld count as "income" when declaring my father in laws income for these purposes? No, they don't, since they are not listed in ...
- Wed Sep 17, 2025 11:30 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Steuererklärung: Cost of supporting hosted parents with very low income.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1175
- Tue Sep 16, 2025 7:53 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Steuererklärung: Cost of supporting hosted parents with very low income.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1175
Re: Steuererklarung: cost of supporting hosted parents with very low income.
Only for people with no income of their own do you get to claim the Grundfreibetrag (in your case, pro rata temporis, 50%). He however has income, so his own income will lower what you can claim. --> there will not be much left to claim. See § 33a (1) Satz 5 EStG: https://dejure.org/gesetze/EStG/33a...
- Tue Sep 16, 2025 7:48 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Inheritance tax and German citizenship
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3911
Re: Inheritance tax and German citizenship
I mentioned this to a Makler and he said not to worry, if sold within 2 years at ca. initial valuation, you can challenge the Finanzamt and won’t have to pay inheritance tax most likely. Values haven’t risen over the last year. Now it’s nearly a year since my inheritance and I will definitely have ...
- Tue Sep 16, 2025 11:20 am
- Forum: Health insurance
- Topic: Offsetting Familienversicherung income limits
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3524
Re: Offsetting Familienversicherung income limits
Just to mention….as far as I’ve learned and hopefully understood correctly, for DE tax (therefore KK too) matters, you can split some expenditure over 2-5 years. Such as your windows and most other costs other than servicing (gas etc). Ie, if your windows cost 10k and you only needed 5k to be under...
- Mon Sep 15, 2025 12:32 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Kleinunternehmerregelung
- Replies: 16
- Views: 7238
Re: Kleinunternehmerregelung
2026 is the answer to both your questions. Please note that if your client is either: a non-EU business or a non-German EU business with a valid VAT-ID number, the validity of which you have to check here (and do a PDF print-out as proof that you checked): https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/...
- Sun Sep 07, 2025 1:45 am
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Steuererklärung: Cost of supporting hosted parents with very low income.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1175
Re: Steuererklarung: cost of supporting hosted parents with very low income.
During the months they live with you in Germany, you can claim the full Grundfreibetrag per person (well, if they live here 7 months, then 7/12 * Grundfreibetrag) as an expense in Anlage Unterhalt, line 25: https://www.steuern.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Steuerformulare_2024/Anlage_Unterhalt_2024_steue...
- Sun Aug 31, 2025 4:14 pm
- Forum: Home Automation
- Topic: Notebook / Laptop repair ideas
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1986
- Sat Aug 30, 2025 9:01 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: How to watch Nottingham Forest v West Ham football match tomorrow Sunday 31.08.25
- Replies: 3
- Views: 421
Re: How to watch Nottingham Forest v West Ham football match tomorrow Sunday 31.08.25
If you're in Germany: Get a 1 month subscription at WOW (click on the "Monatsabo" tab) at 44.99€: https://www.wowtv.de/abo/live-sport 2025-08-30 20_57_16-Start – Datei-Explorer.jpg WOW offers the same content as Sky Sport, but with streaming ("Kompletter Live-Sport von Sky Sport bei W...
- Sat Aug 30, 2025 7:33 pm
- Forum: Visa & residence permit
- Topic: Will I lose my permanent residence if I do an abmeldung when married?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 753
Re: Will I lose my permanent residence if I do an abmeldung when married?
I'm planning to leave Germany. I've got a permanent residence through a Blue Card. I'm married to a German citizen. If I do an abmeldung and register in another non EU country as a fiscal resident as well. Would I lose my permanent citizenship? Yes, after 6 months of having left Germany, please see...
- Sat Aug 23, 2025 6:02 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Gardening
- Replies: 110
- Views: 45166
Re: Gardening
- Thu Aug 21, 2025 1:19 pm
- Forum: Health insurance
- Topic: KV/PV payments as a pensioner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 517
Re: KV/PV payments as a pensioner
Membership in the NHS counts as "membership in an EU public health insurance", so go back to Techniker and get them to acknowledge your KVdR status.
- Wed Aug 20, 2025 11:49 pm
- Forum: Health insurance
- Topic: KV/PV payments as a pensioner
- Replies: 5
- Views: 517
Re: KV/PV payments as a pensioner
That would only be true if you were a voluntary member of public health insurance once you retire. However, I assume that once you retire, you will be a member of the KVdR, i.e. a mandatory member of public health insurance. To find out what the KVdR is, please read this: https://happy.toytown.ing/v...
- Tue Aug 19, 2025 9:11 pm
- Forum: Taxes & finance
- Topic: Riester-Rente - keep it going or not?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 495
Re: Riester-Rente - keep it going or not?
About three years after that, this came up during a discussion on TT and Starbright* tried to help me understand what I bad deal that was. * I'm pretty sure it was Starbright. Wasn't he an insurance guy? I cannot for the life of me remember his real name. Starshollow, aka Patrick Ott, he's now the ...
- Tue Aug 19, 2025 9:03 pm
- Forum: Health insurance
- Topic: KK Beiträge
- Replies: 7
- Views: 656
Re: KK Beiträge
So, if someone earns more than 5.512,50 per month from their full-time job and then gets a pension on top, does this mean that the pension isn't subject to KK tax? I will be in a similar position in a few years with working full-time but will receive a small UK mil pension. Yes. You never owe contr...
- Fri Aug 15, 2025 11:06 am
- Forum: Health insurance
- Topic: KK Beiträge
- Replies: 7
- Views: 656
Re: KK Beiträge
In that case, tell him to change to your Krankenkasse 