Field help: Did you have travel expenses commuting to work?

Select "yes" if you want to enter expenses for travel between your home and your primary place of work.

The travel allowance (Entfernungspauschale), commonly referred to as a commuting allowance (Pendlerpauschale), is a flat-rate allowance for the travel costs between home and a regular place of work or, correctly called, the primary place of work.

All employees and self-employed persons can claim the flat-rate allowance, regardless of the amount of their actual expenses and regardless of whether they get to work on foot, by bicycle, motorbike, public transport or by car.

Important: The travel allowance significantly reduces your taxable income. The employee flat-rate amount of 1.230 Euro is already exceeded from a one-way distance of 18 kilometres to the workplace if you go to work on 230 days!