Homeschooling - Can You Get A Tax Deduction?

Created: 03/25/2022, 10:01 am

By: Janine Napirca

In addition to time and nerves, the corona pandemic often cost parents a lot of money.

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Did you take care of your child or children in homeschooling during the corona pandemic?

Read here whether you can deduct something from the tax.

The corona pandemic has led to school closures and many parents have been forced to

their children .

But is homeschooling your own children tax deductible?

You can find out what you are entitled to as a parent below.

Tax deductible?

Homeschooling can cause these additional costs

When schools are closed, many parents face several problems.

On the one hand, school closures cost families with school-age children time and nerves, and on the other hand, in some cases, money.

According to a report by the United Income Tax Aid, some parents first had to buy

such as laptops or tablets so that the students were well equipped to be able to be taught from home.

During the corona pandemic, teachers were dependent on teaching digitally.

In many cases, face-to-face teaching was not possible at times.

Electricity and gas costs may also have increased as a result of homeschooling.

So parents are faced with the question:

No homeschooling flat rate

According to the United Income Tax Aid, the federal government did not decide on a flat rate for homeschooling during the corona pandemic, such as for home office.

Despite school closures, parents with school-age children have to be content with the child bonus.

Homeschooling expenses are not tax deductible

According to the report by Vereinigte Lohnsteuerhilfe,

in Germany does not offer the possibility of claiming the costs of the technical equipment for one's own children for tax purposes.

The same applies to the costs for electricity, gas, telephone and internet.

According to the report, the federal government has decided on some

, but there was no tax break due to homeschooling.

You cannot claim homeschooling expenses as income-related expenses or as special expenses for tax purposes.

So parents have to be satisfied with the

.

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Tip of the United Income Tax Aid

Work equipment that you purchase for yourself and that you use for your job can be partially tax deductible under certain conditions.

Childcare due to school closures: Deduct expenses as special expenses from taxes

Due to the school closures, not all parents could simply stay at home with their children and, for example, work from their home office or take time off.

If you had to organize

, according to the report by Vereinigte Lohnsteuerhilfe, the expenses for this can be tax-deductible as

expenses under certain conditions .

These five savings tips tell you what you can deduct from your taxes.

You can't deduct the cost of homeschooling from your taxes.

However, it can be worth checking whether and which costs you can deduct from your taxes.

Good news for parents with children - 100 euros one-time bonus for each child

According to a report by the

for each child as a supplement to child benefit

via the family benefits office as quickly as possible.

This bonus is offset against the

allowance.