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Field help: (2019) Marital status

This text refers to the Steuererklärung 2019. You can find the version for the Steuererklärung 2024 at:
(2024): Marital status

Marital status has an impact on the tax assessment and thus on the tax calculation, which is carried out according to the basic tariff or the splitting tariff.

  • Choose "single" if you were not married, divorced or widowed on 31.12.2019.
  • Choose "married" if you were married on 31.12.2019 and did not live permanently separated from your spouse.
  • Choose "same-sex marriage/civil partnership" if you were living in a same-sex marriage or registered civil partnership on 31.12.2019 and did not live separately from your partner.
  • Choose "divorced" if your marriage or registered civil partnership was dissolved before 01.01.2020.
  • Choose "permanently separated" if you were already living permanently separated from your spouse on 31.12.2019 but were still married.
  • Choose "widowed" if you were widowed on 31.12.2019 and did not live permanently separated before the death of your spouse.
  • Choose "widowed after separation" if you were widowed on 31.12.2019 but were already living separately from your spouse.