Field help: (2021) Did you incur funeral expenses in the year 2021?

Select Yes if you want to claim funeral expenses. This includes in particular:

• Transportation costs
• Undertaker's bills
• Costs for coffin, urn, cremation and burial at sea
• Fees for the death certificate (Sterbeurkunde), death record (Totenschein)
• Cost of obituaries
• Costs for a pastor, parish clerks, organist, funeral speaker, coffin bearers
• Costs for a gravestone, grave monument and inscription

You can only deduct the costs of a funeral as exceptional costs if you have to bear the costs for legal reasons or were forced to do so for moral reasons and the amount of the estate is insufficient