{"id":15212,"date":"2023-04-17T15:52:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accountable.de\/deductions\/interest\/"},"modified":"2023-04-17T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:52:55","slug":"interest","status":"publish","type":"deduction","link":"https:\/\/www.accountable.de\/en\/deductions\/interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"font-inter text-base leading-relaxed mb-4 first-of-type:mt-0 text-black wp-block-paragraph\">Good news, generally, interest is fiscally deductible.<br>\nWhen it is linked to your freelance activity, interest is deductible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-inter text-base leading-relaxed mb-4 first-of-type:mt-0 text-black wp-block-paragraph\">That said, there are 2 exceptions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-inter text-base leading-relaxed mb-4 first-of-type:mt-0 text-black wp-block-paragraph\">1 \/ excessive interest: for self-employed persons interest paid on advances by entrepreneurs, shareholders, their spouses or underage children is rejected (i) insofar as they exceed the market interest rate, or (ii) because the 1\/1 ratio is exceeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-inter text-base leading-relaxed mb-4 first-of-type:mt-0 text-black wp-block-paragraph\">The 1\/1 ratio means that the interest-bearing loan cannot exceed the sum of:<br>\n\u2022 taxable reserves at the start of the taxable period;<br>\n\u2022 paid-in capital at the end of the tax period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-inter text-base leading-relaxed mb-4 first-of-type:mt-0 text-black wp-block-paragraph\">2 \/ Thin Cap: For companies, the credit on loans that exceed the debt or equity ratio of 1\/5 is rejected if this surplus exceeds the total amount of the loans by the following amounts times 5:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-inter text-base leading-relaxed mb-4 first-of-type:mt-0 text-black wp-block-paragraph\">\u2022 taxable reserves at the start of the taxable period;<br>\n\u2022 the paid-in capital at the end of this period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"font-inter text-base leading-relaxed mb-4 first-of-type:mt-0 text-black wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, no VAT is charged on interest, so it does not count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","deduction_tag":[548],"class_list":["post-15212","deduction","type-deduction","status-publish","hentry","deduction_tag-finance"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Interest | Accountable<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accountable.de\/en\/deductions\/interest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Interest | Accountable\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Good news, generally, interest is fiscally deductible. 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