Total mistaken - the eight craziest tax benefits

The craziest tax benefits knows the United Tax Help Association. Among them: the cost of the CO2 balance of a holiday trip for Viagra or protection against electromagnetic pollution. Did not work out there, but with the tax deductibility of hush money to a blackmailer.

The cost of CO2, a vacation or for a hair dryer, for Viagra or protection against electromagnetic pollution: The United Tax Help Association has eight tax benefits of a special kind of research - some of them really helpful, others just plain weird. Also: What did insane things settle taxpayer, but were not allowed: for example, the conversion of a disabled motor yacht or the hush money to a blackmailer.

These eight bit unusual tax benefits, there are:

1. It is not the pleasure, but the CO2 balance for the flight is deductible.
The cost of private vacation may not be tax-deductible. But if climate-conscious traveling, must nevertheless submit the cost of CO2, in their tax returns. As compensation for the pollution of passenger transfer money to an Environmental Protection Agency and may issue this compensation from the tax. Condition: The Environmental Protection Agency is tax deductible. These include, for example, voluntary organizations and foundations.


By the way: In the meantime, can be book neutral not only air travel, but also train or boat, including hotel stays CO 2. In this case, the cost of carbon dioxide compensation on arrival and the hotel stay can be deducted.

2. Invoices for toupee, wig or hair transplant are deductible
Anyone who has lost his hair because of illness, can deduct the cost of hair replacement or hair transplant as an extraordinary burden of the tax. Before investing, however, should present a medical certificate.

3. Cost of birth control pills can settle
The cost of the pill can be deducted as extraordinary burden of the tax when the contraception is medically necessary. This can be the case for hormonally induced acne or menstrual disorders.

4. Cost of Viagra is deductible
For Viagra or other impotence drugs, the same principle applies: The costs are deductible as extraordinary burden of the tax when the medication was prescribed by the doctor. In Germany, the blue Viagra pills are already available on prescription - the patient only gets in pharmacies against a doctor's prescription.

By the way: Both, the bill receipts as well as the doctors' prescriptions for Viagra or birth control pills should be attached to the tax return in the original. So it can be proven that the amount declared was actually paid, and it was a recipe for each invoice.