Simpler tax and less bureaucracy
Committee of the Coalition of CDU, CSU and FDP has at its meeting on 9th December 2010 agreed in the Federal Chancellery on a comprehensive tax package simplifying and office kratieentlastender measures. Taxpayers, tax administration and tax consulting professions to be felt by de-explanatory, auditing and administrative cost burden. For eligibility requirements will be streamlined and reduced documentation effort.
The package brings total to a multiple handling, predictability and transparency, and less of a tax bureaucracy. Overall, the taxpayers-who around 590 million € relieved.
are planned to include significant reductions in income tax return. Workers and workers benefit from a higher Werbungskostenpau shell. The Tax Office acknowledges the future of 1,000 instead of € 920 euros without the submission of individual documents as a business expense. This allows for an even larger group of taxpayers the annoying bits of paper and the hassle of sorting receipts account. The related tax relief for citizens will total about 330 million €.
Halving the workload occurs also once and for anyone who decides to have his tax returns in future be required only once every two years.
tax benefits for families of around 200 million euros arising due to the elimination of complicated investigations income when applying for child benefit and tax allowances for dependent adult children, such as school or vocational training. Also abolished complex documentation requirements for childcare costs. The latter need the tax office in the future will not have to specify whether the cost was prompted for the babysitting business or leisure. The resulting relief for family-lien amounts to about 60 million €.