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Please only enter the rental income and service charges actually received in 2024. You can enter the income per flat. For example, you can enter the floor, the number of the flat or the name of the tenant as the name of the residential unit.



What do I need to know about rental income?

As a landlord, you must declare the basic rent as well as the service charges passed on to tenants as income. The costs incurred can be deducted as advertising costs for tax purposes.

Examples of rental income

Rental income includes, among other things:

  • Rental income for flats or rooms
  • Rental income for garages or parking spaces
  • Service charges passed on to the tenant
  • Rent for advertising spaces and vending machine sites
  • Interest credits from building society contracts
  • Compensation payments from tenants for early termination of the lease
  • Leases for undeveloped land
  • Income from a hereditary building right
Tax allowance for low rental income

If your annual rental income is less than 520 Euro, for example through subletting, you can omit this from your tax return. This income, which comes from temporary letting, is exempt from income tax. This also applies to the temporary subletting of parts of your own rented flat. In this case, however, no corresponding advertising costs can be deducted.

What do I need to know about rental income?


Field help

Living space

Indicate the size of the living space of the flats rented out.

Based on the information you provide, the tax office will determine how high the rent per square metre is and whether it is a discounted rent.

When determining the living space, additional rented rooms, such as cellars, attics, sheds and garages, are not to be taken into account.

Room parts with a clear height of between one and two metres as well as the area of balconies, loggias and roof gardens are to be calculated at half.

Service charges received
Service charges received

Enter the amount of the allocations and additional costs received.

Allocations / additional costs include:

  • Heating,
  • Electricity,
  • Water and sewage,
  • House and hall lighting,
  • Chimney sweeper,
  • House cleaning,
  • Street cleaning,
  • Garbage disposal,
  • Community antenna,
  • Building insurance,
  • Tax on land and buildings.

The additional costs can - at least partially - be allocated to the tenants. In this case, the allocated costs are to be recognised as income. On the other hand, you may claim the costs incurred as income-related expenses (Federal Fiscal Court's (BFH) judgement of 14.12.1999, BStBl. 2000 II p. 197).

Rental income
Rental income
Rental income
Rental income

Enter here the amount of the annual rent received without allocations and VAT.

The inflow principle applies for tax purposes to rental income and allocations: Income is taxable in the year in which you receive it (sect. 11 of the Income Tax Act (EStG)). The time period for which the funds are paid is generally irrelevant.

Please enter any VAT amounts received on the page "Mieteinnahmen > Weitere Einnahmen".

Rental income (incl. service charges) for flats rented out

Total rental income for flats rented out.

Designation
Bezeichnung

For example, you can enter the floor, the number of the flat or the name of the tenant as the name of the residential unit.

Did you receive additional payments or refunds in 2024?
Did you receive additional payments or refunds in 2024?
Did you receive additional payments or refunds in 2024?

If you have already settled ongoing allocations with your tenants, for example, by means of a service charge statement, please enter the additional payment made by your tenants in the year 2024 or the amount refunded by you to your tenants. These amounts are usually derived from the service charge statement for the year 2023.

Additional payments received
Additional payments received
Additional payments received

Enter here the amount of the additional payments received.

Refunds made
Refunds made
Refunds made

Enter here the amount of the additional payments received.


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