Field help: (2021) Days with travels to the place of work

Enter the number of days on which you were at this work during the 2021 tax year. Just use the button and the actual working days will be updated according to your entries, taking public holidays into account.

The usual values for the tax return, taking weekends, public holidays and vacation days into account, are

• for a 5-day week: up to 230 work days per a calendar year
• for a 6-day week: up to 280 work days per a calendar year

Based on the information you entered, the travel allowance is calculated by Lohnsteuer kompakt using the following formula:

However, if you conduct several trips per day to your place of work for professional reasons, the travel allowance per working day can only be deducted once.

Due to the Corona pandemic and the home office regulation, the rule that 230 working days per year are accepted by the tax office no longer applies automatically for the years 2020 and 2021! Due to travel shortages, travel expenses may only be claimed if you actually went to the place of work.