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Should I report 1.156€ earned as Freelancer?
This amount just feels so trivial, should I report it?
the real issue here isnt the Finanzamt, its the Krankenkasse and the fact that you were technically uninsured as a freelancer. if you report the 1.156 euro theyll want to know why you didnt pay KV Beitraege for those months, and theyll backdate it with a penalty. but if you dont report it and they find out through a client or bank check, theyll do the same thing but with a higher fine. either way youll owe something, but reporting it now lets you control the narrative. just call your Krankenkasse and explain the situation, theyre usually willing to set up a payment plan for small amounts
ngl i've been in a similar spot and just left small freelance stuff out, but the problem isn't the finanzamt here, it's the krankenkasse. if they ever check and see you had income without paying the freiwillige versicherung beitrag, they'll backdate it with a penalty. for 1.156 euro you'd owe like 170 euro in kv beitrag for those months, plus a saumniszuschlag. way easier to just report it, pay the 14 euro steuer, and declare your kv status honestly so they don't come after u later. the finanzamt is actually pretty chill about small amounts, but the krankenkasse is not
honestly the 1.156€ is small but the issue is the krankenkasse, not the finanzamt. the finanzamt will just add it to your income and you'll owe like 0€ in tax after the grundfreibetrag. but the krankenkasse might want their minimumbeitrag for those months, which is like 200€/month even on low income. if u report the freelance income they might come after u for that backpayment, so weigh that risk. i'd still report it to the finanzamt but be ready for the krankenkasse follow-up
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What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.
if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point
honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.