When is capital gains tax due when selling a house?
Hello,
Will the tax office contact me directly? Or do I have to do it? Or will it wait until next year with my income tax return?
Hello,
Will the tax office contact me directly? Or do I have to do it? Or will it wait until next year with my income tax return?
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Never. There is no speculation tax in Germany.
There are private divestiture transactions under § 23 EStG due to income tax if a building has been purchased and sold within 10 years and the building is not used exclusively or not in the year of sale and for its own residential purposes.
In the case of a private sale business, you are obliged to submit the income tax statement as soon as the free limit of € 1,000 (up to € 2023: € 600) is reached.
But could I already pay the taxes for this sale this year? Selled this month. Do not want to pay the taxes for this with the next tax return
Yes. You can submit an application to the tax office for fixing or Increases in advance payments are due to the fact that you have achieved a sale profit of X €.
Super Thank you
Yeah, well. You can also write directly in the request that this should only be fixed for one year because it was unique.
Even if I don’t make any advance payments? Just want to pay for the sale of my property.
There is no speculation tax.
A private sale transaction (§ 23 EStG) exists if
If that is true, you must indicate that for the year in question in an income tax statement.
If I sold my property this year, I will only pay the taxes for it next year. Can’t I pay the taxes for it prematurely at the tax office?
But that is called pre-payment
Okay then I’ll do it
So
Then I’ll just report to the tax office on my sale and I’ll say I’d like to pay the taxes.
What you mean is a private sale business, there is no speculation tax. In the case of a primary sale transaction, the difference between the purchase costs and the sale proceeds is subject to the ESt.
Inadmissible according to § 23 para. 1 No 1 sentence 3 EStG of sale of land when
Between acquisition and sale over 10 years
or
a plot has been used for the period between acquisition or completion and disposal exclusively for own purposes
or
a plot in the year of sale and the two previous years has been used for own purposes.