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Right, being a foreigner might make it a bit more difficult, I didn't consider that. About your first point, I'd have assumed that putting the total amount you
by lorenzhs 11y ago
Right, being a foreigner might make it a bit more difficult, I didn't consider that.
About your first point, I'd have assumed that putting the total amount you earned that year in the income box on Anlage N would suffice?
When you start freelancing as a consultant then it's probably a good idea to consult a Steuerberater, yeah.
- rglullis 11y agoSee, looks like you could use a Steuerberater, as well. I also initially thought "Oh, I will just indicate the income of the year", but it turns out that the Elster website showed I would get ~2500€ returned. I was expecting at least 3000€, so I didn't file that. When I went to the Steuerberaterin, I managed to get almost 4500€ back. Was it good to have the help from her? Sure. But that cost me about 200€, plenty of time and also me having to get involved a lot in the process of solving the simple issue of "I need to be an expert in the tax code just to get my money back from the Government". If my only choices are between Germany's "complicated in order to keep humans involved and costly" vs the American "complicated to keep tax software companies around, but not so costly", I'd actually take the American model.