Claiming expenses on your tax return (box 1675)

Normally, you should not only enter your expenses in box 1675, but also your income, social security contributions and depreciation (included in the expenses). When you open your tax return on Tax-on-web, you can see which boxes you have filled in and whether anything has gone wrong. In the calculation, you first get the property taxes, then the wage income and the associated social security contributions, followed by the transitional income (unemployment, sickness, living wage, pension) and the tax deductions. Only in part 2 do you enter the income and expenses, social security contributions and tax deductions from your secondary occupation. Different rates apply to both parts. Professional expenses (if they are deductible, of course, and not already included in your employee section) should normally be included in that second part.