However, for a lot of households, this is often not the best solution. By default, the Finanzamt will put both partners in tax class 4, when you first register your marriage or marry in Germany.
The class used for additional jobs (Nebenjob or Zweitjob)Īttention married people: you can save moneyĪs you can see, married people can belong to different classes and optimize differently. You are married with a lower income (than your partner in Steuerklasse 3) You are married with both equivalent income
You are married with a higher income (than your partner in Steuerklasse 5) You are single, widow(er), separated/divorced Self-employed are paying income tax through other means. In other words, your net salary is directly related to your tax class in Germany.Īs you might have already guessed it this is only relevant to employees. This impacts how much wage tax (“Lohnsteuerabzug”), solidarity contribution (“Solidaritätszuschlag”) and Church tax (“Kirchensteuer”) will be taken from your gross salary. This will help your employer apply the correct tax rate on your payslip, hence the name “Lohnsteuerklasse”. Depending on this, you will be put in different categories by the Finanzamt. Because of this announcement about the end of life of ElsterFormular this is only for reference installations and for test purposes.In nutshell your tax class in Germany is more or less defined by your marital status. Please check the ElsterFormular web site here: Please hold in mind: for all tax declarations since 2020 the tax office only accepts online declarations. If you are searching for a solution about an actual tax declaration: There is no way to download old versions and also this isn't supported or desired by any German tax office.ĮlsterFormular is written in Qt, but it is a Windows-only application. This is the reason why you will find here in AppDB only reports about the latest version. So this software is outdated and only for test purposes.
It is for paperless tax declarations according to the tax system in Germany and is only available in the German language.Īs a German taxpayer, you will have to use exclusively an online version on the web. ĮlsterFormular is the official tax software for German taxpayers with an online module that did the data exchange with a tax office. NOTE: Accourding to the German tax authorities this software is deprecated.
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