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Type of expenses
Advertising costs to compensation / wages for several years (line 17)
Here you can claim income-related expenses that can be directly assigned to tax-privileged pension payments.
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 1.230 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. These include, among others:
- Expenses for legal and tax advice,
- Legal costs,
- Postage costs,
- Telephone costs,
- Travel costs (travel allowance, 30 cents per kilometre),
- Expenses for travel by public transport,
- Other pension-related costs.
If actual costs are stated here, suitable proof must be submitted. You should always expect that the tax office will request the relevant receipts.
