As a freelancer, declare taxes correctly

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As a freelancer, your taxes are not automatically deducted, as is the case with salaried employees, but you have to report your income to the tax office responsible for you yourself.

As a freelancer, you need to fill out some forms so that the tax office can calculate your taxes.

Freelancers have to report their earnings to the tax office

In contrast to salaried employees, freelancers have to generate their own income Tax office using the income tax return.
Employees pay tax on their income through wage tax, which is automatically deducted from the salary. Freelancers have to report their income to the tax office, which then the Income tax demands.

When do the self-employed have to pay taxes?

As a freelancer, you do not have to pay taxes until you have earned more than a certain minimum amount (currently € 8004).
Income tax is always given per year. At the beginning of a year for the last.

This is how your taxes are recorded

In order to report your income, you have to fill out various questionnaires from the tax office. You can get this conveniently online as a PDF file on the homepage of the tax office responsible for you by clicking on "Forms" and then selecting "Income tax". In any case, you need the cover sheet for the respective year. Depending on which freelance activity you do, fill out the form. If you do not have your own company or do not work in forestry or agriculture, you do not have to fill out the relevant paragraphs. If you do not yet have a tax number because you have not yet contacted the tax office, you cannot of course fill it out. You will then receive this with the tax assessment once your documents have been processed.
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Then you need Annex S for the self-employed, since you are not employed. All other arcs are optional depending on whether they apply to you. So z. B. Appendix KAP if you have capital assets and / or securities, Appendix K if you have children, etc.
For all of the information you provide, you need evidence that you attach to the form. The required evidence is specified on the sheet at the relevant point.
In addition, fill-in guides can be downloaded for each sheet.
Send the completed form by post to the tax office responsible for you.
If you have not submitted your income tax return on time, you will receive a written request from the tax office.