In Germany we can deduct all sorts of business expenses. It sounds like a sweet deal, but employees get 1000€ as "default business costs" automatically. Since p

In Germany we can deduct all sorts of business expenses. It sounds like a sweet deal, but employees get 1000€ as "default business costs" automatically. Since programming does not require that many resources, I find it is not necessarily so easy to get far above 1000€ in business expenses. If you buy something expensive like a computer, you have to split it across several years, so it doesn't help that much either.