As of: March 13, 2024, 8:03 a.m
By: Franziska Kaindl
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Anyone who files their tax return for 2023 in 2024 should take the increased home office allowance into account.
The maximum amount is 1,260 euros.
The year 2023 is over and taxpayers can slowly get back to their tax returns.
The deadline for submission is September 2, 2024, but it never hurts to deal with the topic early on.
Especially those who have worked from home a lot in the last year can look forward to an adjustment by the federal government.
Higher home office flat rate from the tax return for 2023
The federal government has increased the home office allowance for the 2023 tax year.
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The home office allowance will not only be continued for the 2023 tax year, but will also be increased.
The federal government has determined this as part of the 2022 Annual Tax Act.
Employees can therefore permanently claim an amount of six euros in their tax return for each calendar day that they spent entirely in the home office.
Previously it was five euros per day working from home.
In addition, instead of 120 days, 210 days can now be set - this increases the flat rate from 600 euros to a maximum of 1,260 euros.
It makes no difference whether taxpayers have their own home office or just work at the dining room table at home.
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How to specify the home office allowance in your tax return
The home office flat rate is part of the advertising costs - here the flat rate was increased from 1,200 euros to 1,230 euros.
The home office flat rate only has a meaningful effect if the flat rate for advertising costs has been exceeded.
As the
Lohnsteuerhilfe Bayern eV (Lohi)
informs, this is already the case for 210 home office days.
The same applies if the taxpayer travels 20 kilometers from their home to their employer every day over a five-day week - every additional kilometer then brings in something.
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By increasing the home office allowance, the federal government wants to relieve consumers in view of inflation and increased energy costs for electricity, water and heating.
Since many employees have been spending more time working from home since the Corona pandemic, they have probably clearly noticed the price increases.