Field help: (2018) Second household This text refers to the Steuererklärung 2018. You can find the version for the Steuererklärung 2025 at: (2025): Second household Tick this box if you incurred costs as part of a second household.If your workplace is far away from where you live and you, therefore, need a second home, you are considered having two households.Certain costs incurred by you, as a result, can be claimed as income-related expenses. For example, the following costs are deductible:Costs for apartment search (e.g. travel costs for apartment viewing, telephone or postage fees)Costs of moving to set up the second household (transport costs, cost of a hire car, travel expenses on the day of moving)Meal costs (in the first three months after the establishment of the second householdRental and incidental rental costsCosts for trips homeetc.