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Field help: Have you received financial settlements, payments or pension benefits?

Select "yes" here if you received compensation payments from your divorced or permanently separated spouse in 2025 to avoid a pension rights adjustment.

These payments are taxable for you under certain conditions, especially if your ex-partner deducts the amounts as special expenses (sect. 10 para. 1a no. 3 of the Income Tax Act (EStG)).

Conditions for tax deduction by the payer and tax liability for you:

  • Your consent to the tax deductibility is required (Form U).
  • There must be a court settlement or a notarised contract in which the avoidance of the pension rights adjustment is expressly regulated.
  • The payments are made to settle a claim for pension rights adjustment.

Example: Ms A and Mr B divorced in 2025. To avoid a pension rights adjustment, Mr B pays a one-off sum of 25.000 Euro to Ms A based on a notarised contract. Ms A agrees that Mr B deducts this amount as a special expense. Ms A must declare the payment in her tax return.

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