Tax levels paid by foreign PhD students

Hello!

I am a bit new to this form but I find it very resourceful. I will be moving to Karlsruhe area next week. Does anyone have an idea what percentage of you salary goes for taxes? I will be employed as a pre-doctoral student. Can some one tell me how much is usually taken from the salaries of PhD foreign students in taxes?

thanks

I can't imagine your salary is very high. right?

Under which contract will you be employed? If TV-L(used to be BAT2-A) you should have a bruto amount of approx. 3000EUR / month which should be something like 1750 EUR at the end (that includes health care)

If you have a scholarship I cannot help you.

good luck you might need it

koubiak, where on earth did you get those numbers? They're almost 3X the figures I know for brutto.

As a current PhD student in Germany, neither I nor any of my colleagues, pay tax on our stipends. Of course that might vary depending on your studies, university and where the money comes from.

Well I know it from my paycheck but I found that
http://www.cats.rwth-aachen.de/jobs/bat

Cheers

Bessel80: will you be employed by the university (i.e. by the governement) or will you be paid by a grant or stipend? if the first, taxes will be around what koubiak wrote, if the latter, no taxes seem to apply from what I learned. but you'll need to specify your status in order to receive the correct answers here.

Cheerio