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Field help: (2020) Amount
Type of expenses

This text refers to the Steuererklärung 2020 online. You can find the version for the Steuererklärung 2024 at:
(2024): Amount
Type of expenses

Although a retiree, like an active civil servant, continues to be considered an employee, he or she is not entitled to the employee's allowance of 1.000 Euro. Instead, retirees - like pensioners - receive a flat-rate income-related allowance of 102 Euro.

If you have actually incurred higher income-related expenses in connection with pension payments, you can enter them here.

Deductible income-related expenses in connection with pension payments for several years include, but are not restricted to

  • lawyer's fees,
  • tax consultant costs,
  • legal costs: court costs and exceptional costs,
  • postage,
  • telephone costs,
  • travel costs (travel allowance, 30 cents per kilometre),
  • expenses for travel by public transport,
  • other pension-related costs.