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Childcare costs can be deducted as special expenses.
Expenses for the care of a child belonging to your household who has not yet reached the age of 14 or who is unable to support themselves due to a physical, mental or psychological disability that occurred before the age of 25 can be taken into account as special expenses up to 80% of the care costs, up to a maximum of EUR 4,800.00 per child.
The childcare costs must be evidenced by an invoice and payment to an account of the service provider (by bank transfer or crossed check). The invoice and proof of payment must be presented at the request of the tax office. Cash payments and cash cheques cannot be accepted.
An "invoice" also includes
You can obtain the forms from all tax offices. The relevant forms can also be downloaded from the homepage of the State Tax Office.
The special expenses deduction is only possible for a child who is related to you in the first degree or is a foster child with whom you are connected by a family-like, long-term bond
The child must belong to your household, i.e. it must live in your home or be temporarily accommodated away from home with your consent (e.g. in the case of boarding school accommodation). In the case of parents who do not live together, the child's residence registration is generally decisive for the allocation to the household of one parent.
You must have an invoice for the childcare costs or have concluded a contract for childcare. Payment must be made to the account of the service provider. Cash benefits are not eligible.
Beneficiary childcare services
In particular, expenses for
In addition to the above expenses in cash, the following are also eligible
Not eligible are expenses for
Amount of childcare costs to be taken into account
Childcare costs are deductible as special expenses in the amount of 80 percent of the expenses, up to a maximum of EUR 4,800.00 per child and calendar year.
The maximum amount is an annual amount that is not reduced pro rata temporis, even if the conditions for the deduction of childcare costs were only met for part of the year (no twelfths).
For example, if a child reaches the age of 14 in the course of a year, 80% of the childcare costs incurred up to the 14th birthday are to be deducted, limited to the maximum amount of EUR 4,800.00.
In the case of unmarried, permanently separated or divorced parents, the parent who has borne the expenses and to whose household the child belongs is entitled to deduct childcare costs. If this applies to both parents, each parent can only claim their actual expenses up to half of the maximum deductible amount (i.e. EUR 2,400.00). This only applies if the parents mutually agree on a different division of the maximum deduction amount and notify the tax office of this (on the child annex).
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If you are obliged to submit an income tax return, you must generally submit it to the tax office by 31.07. of the following year. In other cases, you can apply for the assessment within 4 years of the end of the respective calendar year (example: voluntary income tax assessment for 2024 can be applied for until 31.12.2028).
Applications for income tax relief must be submitted by 30.11. of the year for which the allowance is to be taken into account. Changes that occur in December can therefore only be taken into account in the wage tax deduction procedure for the following calendar year.
