

“7 – Einkommensersatzleistungen” – this are benefits you received from entities other than your employer (elterngeld, mutterschaftsgeld, etc).40.000 € if you have an equity VL and are married (total income from both persons together).35.800 € if you have a building VL and are married (total income from both persons together).20.000 € if you have an equity VL and are single.17.900 € if you have a building VL and are single.“6 – Antrag auf Festsetzung der Arbeitnehmer-Sparzulage” – this is only if you are employed, have a VL savings account and your yearly income was maximum:.Zeilen 8 und 9” (if you are single or if the account is in the name of the husband) line 24 – select “zusammenvaranlagung” if you are married and you are making your taxes together with your spouse.between line 23 and 24 – telephone number (optional).line 11 to 13 – address, birthday and religion.The Finanzamt name and number is usually the first 3 digits of your Steuernummer (you can also check it here). If you don’t have a Steuernummer (it’s a different number than the Steuer Identifikationsnummer), you can select to be given a new one. line 3 and 4 – press the button to fill them.if you live in Germany you have to choose the “Einkommensteuererklärung unbeschränkte Steuerpflicht (ESt 1 A)”.For more info on these and the other forms available, check here. Note: if you loose your security certificate, log-in on and select the menu “Registrierung” (menu on the left of the page) to download it again.īelow are the most used forms and fields to be filled in by persons with no kids, using the Elster Formular Program (so that most fields will already be automatically filled in). For that, click on the button right to the saving button in the tollbar “Eingabe daten aus dem Steuerfall des Vorjahres uebernehmen” If you did your taxes last year, you can automatically fill out most of the information using last year’s tax return. For that, open the Elster Formular program that you’ve downloaded, go to the menu “Belegabruf” – “Belege vom Finanzamt abrufen”. You can already use the pre-filled forms, which will already have a lot of information pre-filled for you.
