Threshhold for tax-free earnings

Is there a threshold for income tax?

I have been offered an Intern for 600 Euros and am wondering how much of it I would get in my hand?

i doubt you will pay any tax. I was earning around 1400 oirose and had to pay around 100 in tax per month. The good thing was as the tax year is Jan to Jan and I started in July for 13 months, i got to claim the tax back for both years

I used to get up to 890 odd euros withouth paying any income tax. I had to pay for pension fund and solidarity tax though.

The threshold for income tax is €7,664 per year, although (as mentioned) there will be other taxes, insurances and pension schemes to pay even if you earn less than this. The first step is 15%, and it steadily climbs from there.

Hi thanks for the help so far, I have found this link it is a German Wage Tax Calculator

I was wondering if a few people would give it a go with there own figures in order to see if it is right! (You don't need to publish the results but a simple yes worked for me will do.)

Thanks in advance and hope it will be useful to others.

As long as you give the Health insurance rate correctly, it works good for me.

Thanks Panama.

Can't believe that everyone manages to go off topic in the German interview thread, bragging about their six figure salaries, and when given the chance to do it tactfully they don’t!

Those that are more discreet just need to let me know if it works properly with a simple yes or no like Panama.

Please can more people check to see if it works? I just need to make sure, so I can then budget what I need to earn to live, and pay off student debts back in the UK. (Last thing I want to do is take a job that won't pay the bills due to the site been wrong!)

Something doesnt add up here. Since the "solidarity" tax is a fixed percentage of your income tax, if you dont pay income tax then you dont pay solidarity tax.

As far as I know, it is not like that. It is a small percentage of your income, not of your income tax. That's why it appears as a separate item in your monthly statements. At least as far as I know.

@the-daddy, you don't really need anymore to tell you if it works or not, it does. Just use it. It provides correct data.

Not true.

Die Höhe des Solidaritätszuschlags beträgt derzeit 5,5 Prozent der Einkommensteuer.

@ the Boy From Bozlem,
could you plz elaborate a bit on ur statement? I started also working in Munich last June, but in my tax declaration, they considered what I earned the whole year in my home country and in Germany?
How come you claimed it back? Is it because of this double tax agreements they have between countries?
10x
Petra