Selbststaendig and tax class

[Anita_anita 11]

Question everyone, 

if you are sebtständig (have your own business), does it matter which Steuerklasse your spouse has? In other words, does it matter if your wife has 4 or 3? Does it make any difference for you?

Regards, 

Anita

[dci02 17]

I don't think it makes any difference. I can only tell you of my/our own experience. My wife is self-employed, and I have tax class 3. She has to file the taxes for her joint practice, and then from what her tax adviser produces, we use for our own joint tax declaration (which we also do with a tax advisor). For last year we had to pay money for missing tax, the previous years we received money. But honestly we let the steuerberater do everything for us, and he generally calculates for the worst meaning we are alwas happy when we get money back or owe less then we thought.