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Disability insurance premiums are not deductible automatically. Contract form, classification under the German Income Tax Act and maximum amounts decide. Here are the checks for your tax return.
Tutoring income in Germany stays tax-free while your taxable income is below the basic allowance (2026: 12,348 euros). Here is which figures count.
Leave of absence because of illness at a German university: application, certificate, deadlines, effects on exams, BAföG and fees, compared across two universities.
From 2027, indicators become mandatory for newly produced e-scooters. What multi-axle scooters must observe for their brakes and what applies to vehicles already in use.
The deadline for the study start grant ends at the end of the month after training begins under section 56 BAföG. What reinstatement may still achieve.
The BAföG draft removes the proof of academic progress from the fifth subject semester, while current law requires it after the fourth. What is planned and what remains open.
A blanket ban on dogs and cats in standard tenancy terms is invalid in Germany. What the BGH decided in 2013 and what it means for students.
A German payment order (Mahnbescheid) is a court document with a short deadline. Here you learn how the two week objection period runs, how to file an objection and what silence means.
A landlord may only pass on operating costs agreed in the tenancy and listed in the catalogue. Which cost types apply and which deadlines you must observe.
Is a retirement depot protected from seizure? What § 851c ZPO says, where the limits lie, and how basic income support is treated, in brief.
