What information can I provide to you?

Whether you are an employee, student, or trainee, you can use Steuerbot to prepare your tax return. Here we explain what information you can provide to us.

We are constantly developing Steuerbot. Below is a brief overview of the current status.

You can currently use Steuerbot to prepare the following information as an individual or joint tax return 👫

🏠 Main form / cover sheet – For all taxpayers

General information
Extraordinary expenses (e.g., illness/care costs)
Household-related employment
Services/craftsmen's services
Donations and membership fees
Training costs

💼 Appendix N – Professional activity and further training

Wages and similar income
Travel, transportation, and meal expenses
Further training costs
Work equipment (e.g., computers, specialist literature, tools)
Relocation costs
Other income-related expenses (including professional associations, double household maintenance)

👵 Appendix R – Income from pensions

Statutory pension
Rürup pension
Riester pension
Company pension scheme (bAV)
Private pension

👧🏼👦🏻 Appendix Children – minor and adult children

Personal details
School, education, and employment
Childcare costs and school fees
Allowances and relief amounts
Health and long-term care insurance

🤝 Appendix: Pension expenses – statutory and private insurance

Pension provision (pension insurance, professional pension schemes, Rürup contracts)
Health and nursing care insurance
Employer subsidies
Other insurance (including unemployment insurance, liability insurance, disability insurance)

🧓🏻 Appendix AV – Pension provisions and Riester contracts

Pension contributions
Information on children

📈 Appendix KAP – Income from capital investments

Capital gains
Savers' allowance
Unbalanced losses
Share losses
Income from life insurance policies

🏠 Appendix V – Income from renting and leasing

Income from renting and leasing
Building depreciation
Special depreciation
Maintenance expenses
Debt interest
Administrative costs

What Steuerbot cannot do

Trade, self-employment, agriculture, and forestry
Pension payments to other persons
Other income (e.g., parliamentary salaries)
Foreign wage income
Main form/cover sheet: donations to the assets of a foundation, pension payments and compensation payments
Additional information and special cases such as: tax reductions for inheritance tax liabilities, tax breaks for cultural assets worthy of protection, loss deductions/donation carryovers, other information and applications
Special forms of capital gains and tax structures, such as family foundations or tax deferral models and other complex constructs that rarely affect private individuals

💡 With Steuerbot, employees, civil servants, pensioners, and trainees (in-company training) can file their tax returns, and students and trainees (school-based training) can carry forward their losses.