Field help: (2024) Days with travel to place of work

Enter the number of days on which you were at this work during the 2024 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 holiday 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 travel to your place of work several times per day for professional reasons, the travel allowance per working day can only be deducted once.

Since the Corona pandemic and the home office regulation, the rule that 230 or even 280 working days per year are accepted by the tax office no longer applies without further ado! Many tax offices request statements from employers about the days actually spent working at the company or the authority.