Deduct private legal expenses insurance in the tax return

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Strictly speaking, you cannot claim private legal protection insurance in your tax return. The reason is that it is not an insurance with a preventive character.

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Deduct pension contributions in the tax return

Pension contributions are understood to mean all contributions to insurance policies that serve a form of pension provision. Legal protection insurance, household contents and fully comprehensive insurance do not fall under this term.

  • The legal protection insurance, however, has a component that is related to the advertising costs. Advertising costs are those coststhat arise for an employee in connection with maintaining, exercising and securing his professional activity.
  • In addition to traffic legal protection insurance, there is also private, home and professional legal protection insurance.
  • Professional legal protection insurance is to be seen in direct connection with the exercise of the profession and actually falls under income-related expenses.
  • The contributions to pension insurance, Health insurance and private retirement provision usually reach a volume that the contribution to legal expenses insurance would have no impact on pension expenses.
  • Tax deductible costs for legal expenses insurance

    You cannot fully tax the costs of your legal protection insurance ...

Claim the private legal protection insurance for tax purposes

  • Normally, professional legal protection insurance is a component in an overall package. The premium is therefore rarely shown explicitly.
  • To the private legal protection insurance with the proportion of the professional legal protection in the To be able to claim the tax return, you need the proof of the insurer about the pro rata premium.
  • If your legal protection insurance is not a package but is made up of the individual modules, you will find the premium portion in the annual statement for private legal protection insurance. You can attach this to your tax return.

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