What can parents do if child benefit not received was taken into account in the income tax assessment?
And how long do you still have the right to child benefit?
What those affected should know.
Parents who apply for child benefit too late will receive
child benefit *
retrospectively for a maximum of six months.
This regulation has been in force since 2018, according to a report by the German Press Agency (as of August 2020), in which the
current legal situation is
explained.
Parents of adult children in particular are often unsure whether they are still entitled to child benefit.
For example, if the offspring completes a
social year
or an
internship
- and in many cases they do not apply for child benefit.
And some parents would simply forget to apply for child benefit if their offspring first had a job after graduating from high school, then took a break and only then began training or studying.
For further reading
: In these cases, parents are entitled to child benefit
Treasury calculates child benefit not received: appeal against tax assessment
What does this mean for the
income tax return
?
The regulation has so far been like this: "Even if parents only received a repayment for a few months, the tax office was able to
credit the entire child benefit
in the
income tax
return
as part of the cheaper check," says the dpa report.
However, the legal situation has changed.
Isabel Klocke from the Association of Taxpayers explains the situation according to dpa: "In future, the child benefit applied for, which is not paid out due to a late application to the family benefits office, will no longer be counted towards the child allowances."
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The regulation applies to all
tax notices
that
are not yet final
, the dpa report said.
In these cases, parents can
object to the tax assessment
if the tax office has made the old credit.
Another tip: The parents concerned should refer to the changed legal situation.
In the future, it should work a little easier: In future tax assessments, the tax office will automatically take the new legal situation into account.
(ahu) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen central editorial network
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