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Additional travel expenses

What additional travel expenses can I deduct?

In addition to travel expenses, accommodation and meal allowances, you can also deduct other costs incurred in connection with your off-site work. These include, among others:

Parking fees, tolls, garage rental
Telephone charges for business calls
Entrance fees for business events
Luggage storage fees
Costs for currency exchange and loss on repurchase
Compensation for traffic accidents
Damage to travel luggage
Theft of items (professionally used items, private items taken for business purposes, necessary personal travel items)

Loss of money or jewellery is not reimbursed.

For many incidental travel expenses, there are no receipts. You can still claim these in your tax return. Create a self-issued receipt with the location, date, type and amount of the expense and submit it.

If you do not know the exact amount of an item, estimate it. Many tax offices accept an estimated amount if it is plausible.

What additional travel expenses can I deduct?

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Designation

Specify which travel expenses you want to enter.

The deductible additional travel expenses include, for example,

Expenses for journeys at the place of the off-site work,
Parking fees,
Motorway, toll or ferry fees,
Expenses for luggage transport and storage,
Expenses for professional telephone calls and in the case of a one-week stay abroad, also for a 15-minute private telephone call as with double household management (BFH judgement of 05.07.2012),
Entrance fees for professional events,
Contributions to baggage and accident insurance limited to off-site work,
Accidental damage due to off-site work,
Costs for internet access in the hotel,
Costs for a pilot trolley (Tax Court Hamburg dated 23.05.2011, 6 K 77/10 ).

Amount

Enter here the amount of expenses.

The deductible additional travel expenses include, for example,

Expenses for journeys at the place of the off-site work,
Parking fees,
Motorway, toll or ferry fees,
Expenses for luggage transport and storage,
Expenses for professional telephone calls and in the case of a one-week stay abroad, also for a 15-minute private telephone call as with double household management (BFH judgement of 05.07.2012),
Entrance fees for professional events,
Contributions to baggage and accident insurance limited to off-site work,
Accidental damage due to off-site work,
Costs for internet access in the hotel,
Costs for a pilot trolley (Tax Court Hamburg dated 23.05.2011, 6 K 77/10 ).

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