Unterhalt checklist

Sending Money to Family from Germany

Estimate the deductible support amount and build an evidence checklist for your tax return.

Amounts Evidence Result

Step 1

Enter the support details

The estimate applies the annual cap, country group, first-payment month, household split, recipient income, insurance additions, and your ability-to-pay limit.

Approximate guide only: this calculator is not legal, financial, or tax advice. Rules can depend on your full situation, documents, and local tax office review.

Choose a country to auto-select the official percentage class from the Ländergruppeneinteilung.

As an Expat living in Germany, you can Claim Remittance money sent to Parents from Germany to your home country in your Tax Return. Yes, this is a tax-deductible expense. But the act of simply sending money to Someone isn’t enough for the Tax office (Finanzamt) to consider your expense.

You need to provide sufficient proof of your claims. Just follow the steps I have mentioned in this guide to Claim Remittance Money Sent to Parents from Germany in a Tax Return!

How to claim money sent to Family from Germany

If a taxpayer has higher expenses than most other taxpayers with similar income and assets as well as the same marital status. In that case there are extraordinary burdens on this taxpayer. 

Expenses that cannot be avoided for legal, factual or moral reasons and are necessary under the circumstances are considered to be inevitable and fall under extraordinary burdens. These expenses obviously may not exceed a reasonable amount.

There are many expenses that fall under außergewöhnliche Belastungen or Extraordinary Burdens for example medical costs, care costs, funeral costs, replacement costs after a disaster, and Maintenance Payments to those in need.

So these maintenance payments become tax-deductible and fall under Unterhaltungeserklaerung (or maintenance declaration)