Lohnsteuer kompakt FAQs

Field help: (2024) Did you maintain a second home because of your work?
(Second household)

Select "yes" if you incurred costs as part of a second household.

If your workplace is far away from where you live and you need a second home, you are considered to have two households.

Certain costs incurred by you, as a result, can be claimed as income-related expenses.
For example, the following costs are deductible:

• Costs for flat search (e.g. travel costs for flat viewing, telephone or postage fees)
• Costs of moving to set up the second household (transport costs, cost of a hire car, travel expenses on the day of moving)
• Meal costs (in the first three months after the establishment of the second household
• Rental and incidental rental costs
• Costs for trips home
• etc.