Old-age pensions are subject to taxation.
But there is a tax-free part that depends on the year of retirement.
What if the pension is postponed?
In
principle, seniors have to
pay
income
tax
for their
pension *
.
However, a certain proportion remains tax-free.
Decisive for the tax-free portion is the year of
retirement
s
how the German Press Agency (dpa) reported.
"The later you retire, the lower the tax-free portion," explains Isabel Klocke from the taxpayers' association, according to the dpa.
For senior citizens who retired in 2005 or earlier
, the tax-free portion was still 50 percent of the first
annual
pension,
according to the report.
Seniors who retire in 2021,
on the other hand
,
would only get 19 percent tax-free.
Decisive here is the year of the actual annuitization date
by which, according to dpa
Finanzgericht Schleswig-Holstein
(Az .: 2 K 159/19).
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According to the report, this is what the
dispute was
about: The plaintiff was entitled to
a pension from the lawyers' pension scheme when he reached the
age
of
65
.
He applied to
postpone
his
pension
and continued to work for three years
until 2012.
In his
income tax return
for 2012, he asked to determine the tax-exempt portion for his pension with the percentage for 2009, reports dpa on the background to the dispute, because this is the year of actual retirement.
The
tax office
and also the
Finanzgericht Schleswig-Holstein
, however, according to the report attracted the
lower percentage
approach of 2012, because the applicant had actually gone only this year in pension.
The report goes on to say that senior citizens who continue to work longer and retire later are disadvantaged in tax terms, which is why the plaintiff appealed to the Federal Fiscal Court (Ref .: XR 29/20).
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Objection to tax assessment or too low a tax-free portion an option
Isabel Klocke from the Association of Taxpayers advises according to the dpa: "Pensioners in a comparable situation can rely on the ongoing procedure and
appeal against their tax assessment
and
the too low tax-free portion
." Then, the report goes on to say, your own case open until a final judgment.
However, the taxes set by the tax office must first be paid.
A correction would then be possible with a positive judgment, so the conclusion.
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