Field help: (2024) Did you maintain a second home because of your work?(Second household) This text refers to the Steuererklärung 2024. You can find the version for the Steuererklärung 2025 at: (2025): Did you maintain a second home because of your work?(Second household) Select "yes" if you incurred costs as part of a second household. If your workplace is far away from where you live and you need a second home, you are considered to have 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 flat search (e.g. travel costs for flat 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 household Rental and incidental rental costs Costs for trips home etc.