Learning community for tax returns with form

Additional author: Sarina Scholl

A learning community is often helpful

• If you've just started your professional education and need to study for your apprenticeship, this is it Often times easier if you join a learning community with a few other trainees join together. After all, it has been scientifically proven that newcomers to the profession learn more easily in a community. You should keep all receipts for your expenses just in case, so that you can claim them at the tax office.

• However, you can only fill out your tax return using the official form if you are in Pay wage taxes on your education, otherwise you will have no way of properly managing your expenses to discontinue. Otherwise, just wait until the end of your studies or training. You can only deduct the costs of the learning community from tax once you have taxable income.

You can deduct a lot in the official form of your tax return

• If you want to take full advantage of the tax return options, you can also deduct your costs for your learning community. There are several ways to do this. If you have to raise regular costs through this community, you can deduct these expenses as business expenses.

• Do you often have to take longer distances to get to your learning community? You can easily deduct the costs for this in the form "Annex N" as travel expenses within the advertising expenses. You can not only sell this if you have a vehicle and form a car pool, but also if you use public transport to get there. When using public transport, you should keep your tickets as proof.


Family trips home - what you should consider when filing your tax return

How do you register family trips home? If you are in an external educational institution ...

• Since this additional learning in a learning community is also part of the work, you can also claim the time expended. To do this, take the form in Appendix N of your tax return and enter in the "Meal expenses" section relevant days so that you have an increased need for food of 6 euros for more than eight hours of absence receive. In this way, you have exhausted all of the deductibility options. (As of 01/2013)