Leistungen A-Z

Forms for the electronic wage tax deduction characteristics (ELStAM) and for the wage tax reduction are available online; either via the form center of the Federal Ministry of Finance ( www.formulare-bfinv.de ) or in the ELSTER online portal or on the website of your tax office (www.finanzamt.brandenburg.de). The applications are also available in paper form at the tax office.

Responsibility of the tax offices for the following changes:

• Change / change of tax bracket
• Consideration of adult children
• Consideration of children registered outside the parent's municipality of residence
• Income tax reduction procedure

Responsibility of the registration authority for the following changes:

Changes of address and civil changes, e.g. due to:

• Entering or leaving the church
• Marriage
• Birth, adoption or death

are still managed by the citizens' offices of the cities and municipalities and automatically transmitted to the tax authorities for the purpose of changing personal wage tax deduction characteristics.

There is an obligation to notify the tax office if the taxpayer

• the requirement for a less favourable tax class has occurred (e.g. the registration of tax class I, due to the "permanently separated" in the previous year and thus the elimination of the requirement for tax class III),
• a lower number of child allowances must be taken into account,
• the requirement for a tax class II granted on application has ceased to apply.

Other changes to the ELStAM can be requested: e.g. :

• Registration of tax class II due to the birth of a child in the case of single persons,
• Registration of a less favourable tax class, for example tax class I instead of III or IV
• Change of tax class between III/V, IV/IV or IV/IV with factor

Change in the employee's personal circumstances that affect the income tax deduction.

Marriage certificate

Birth certificate of the child

Financial management: none

Registration authority: not known here

For the change of registration data (e.g. name change) you must contact your responsible residents' registration office, for the change of tax office data (e.g. consideration of an allowance due to income-related expenses) you must contact your tax office of residence. This can be done both in person and in writing.

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Employee's tax office of residence

• Tax Office Finder

As a rule, the service and information office of the tax office

• §§ 38b to 39f Income Tax Act (EStG)

Instructions on how to fill out the respective application form are contained in the forms.

• Federal Ministry of Finance letter of 8 November 2018, Federal Tax Gazette I p.1137

Ministry of Finance of the State of Brandenburg