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of which covered by a company car
Enter the number of trips to the family home from the place of employment to your first home and back that you made with a company car.
The tax office recognises the trips actually undertaken between the place of employment and your home town at a rate of 30 cents per kilometre or 38 cents from the 21st distance kilometre onwards (Entfernungspauschale (travel allowance)). The tax office recognises maximum one trip home per week.
The type of transport used is irrelevant. If you have used public transport, enter the actual costs. Flight and ferry costs, as well as costs for a paid carpool, are always taken into account in the proven amount.
When using a company car or an official car and in the case of collective transport arranged by the employer, a distance allowance cannot be applied. Instead of the expenses for a trip home, the charges for long-distance phone conversations up to 15 minutes with relatives belonging to the household can also be taken into account.
