The child bonus of 150 euros per child should be paid as early as May.
But which families actually benefit from it in the end?
For many
parents it
is good news: The
child bonus
of 150 euros per child is to be paid out in May *.
Such a corona child bonus of 300 euros at that time was already available for families last year.
The
surcharge on child benefit should now
amount
to a one-off 150 euros in 2021
.
The child bonus is
offset against the
child tax allowance
.
Child bonus: 150 euros per child - which families benefit from it?
Not all families benefit
equally
from the child bonus
.
Because this time too, as
reported by
wiwo.de
, the
high earners will
"go away empty-handed" - because they would already
benefit
more from the
child allowance
.
This year, the child allowance is 8,388 euros per child.
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Sample calculation for child allowance and child bonus
In the above-mentioned report on
wiwo.de
, Daniel Schollenberger, tax expert at the specialist portal
Steuertipps.de
,
explains
the bill using a fictitious example case as follows: Two “freshly baked” parents with one son have a joint taxable annual gross income of 80,000 euros and have to pay about 16,904 euros in taxes.
If you subtract the allowance of the two, i.e. 8,388 euros, from the 80,000 euros annual income, you get a taxable income of 71,612 euros.
Correspondingly, less taxes were incurred on this lower income - in this case around 14,062 euros, as it is said on
wiwo.de
for the example
calculation
.
Without the child allowance,
you would have had
to pay
16,904 euros
in taxes, and with a
child allowance 14,062 euros
, the so-called example
calculation
- which corresponds to a
relief from the child allowance of 2,842 euros
.
By comparison to
child support
parents in the fictional example of a month would get 219 euros and 150 euros one-time
child bonus.
.
Which adds up to a total of 2,778 euros.
This amount is therefore lower than the tax relief from the child allowance.
wiwo.de
finally quotes the expert as follows: The example of the two young parents shows that with the child allowance "more than 64 euros more tax-free money a year than would be the case with the child benefit and child bonus" .
It also says on
wiwo.de
: This means that the child bonus "is in fact of no use for both of them, because with and without the child bonus they have more tax relief than the amount of child benefit".
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In addition,
wiwo.de
reports
specifically: "Spouses only benefit
at least partially from the new
child bonus
up to a
joint gross annual income of around 75,000 euros a year
,
for
single parents
the limit is an annual income of 37,500 euros." According to the report, these values are related on the taxable gross income.
By taking into account pension and health insurance contributions for tax purposes, the exact gross limit could be a little higher in individual cases.
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In the
meantime,
low-wage earners in
particular
would be dated
Benefit from the children's bonus.
Because it is
offset against
the
tax child allowance
as described
, but
not added to the basic security
.
(ahu) * merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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