Field help: (2018) Second household

Tick this box if you incurred costs as part of a second household.

If your workplace is far away from where you live and you, therefore, need a second home, you are considered having two households.

Certain costs incurred by you, as a result, can be claimed as income-related expenses.
For example, the following costs are deductible:

• Costs for apartment search (e.g. travel costs for apartment viewing, telephone or postage fees)
• Costs of moving to set up the second household (transport costs, cost of a hire car, travel expenses on the day of moving)
• Meal costs (in the first three months after the establishment of the second household
• Rental and incidental rental costs
• Costs for trips home
• etc.