Auslandstagegelder (Verpflegung und Übernachtung)

Published beside the figure, and never applied for you.

• An employee deducts 1 230 EUR a year without proving anything

  The Arbeitnehmer-Pauschbetrag is deducted automatically from employment income. Real Werbungskosten — this figure among them — only change the tax due once their total exceeds it, and then only if proven. Comparing the two needs the employee’s other professional costs, which are theirs. Nothing here restricts an employer’s reimbursement, which is exempt under a different provision.

  https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/estg/__9a.html

• The accommodation flat rate is for employer reimbursement only

  An employer may reimburse the published nightly flat rate without receipts. An employee deducting the cost from taxable income may not use it and must produce the bill. The figure is published on every destination; which of the two you are doing is yours.

  https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/estg/__9.html

• Which destination applies on a day of travel

  On a day of arrival or departure without work, the rate is that of the place reached before midnight; on a one-day trip abroad, that of the last place worked. Deciding it needs the itinerary, which is the caller’s.

  https://www.bundesfinanzministerium.de/Content/DE/Downloads/BMF_Schreiben/Steuerarten/Lohnsteuer/2025-12-05-steuerliche-behandlung-reisekosten-2026.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=1

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