Friends, I have collected for you the news that the last spring month - May - brought us.

✅Changes related to Corona

🟡 Mandatory masks in schools and kindergartens have been cancelled. Mandatory testing has also been abolished.

🟡 A single quarantine period for those infected is 5 days.

🟡 In most states, quarantine for contact persons has been canceled.

*Check the rules in your country - they may differ.

⁉️Financial news

The next measures to support citizens in a situation with rising inflation and prices have been announced:

🟡 Increasing retrospectively from January 1, 2022 basic allowance for 363 € from 9.984 € to 10.347 €. This means that from an income of 10.347 €, and for a family of 20.694 €, income tax will not need to be paid. But do not forget about social contributions.

🟡 Werbungskosten-Pauschbetrag also increases retroactively from €1000 to €1200.

🟡 May 31 is the deadline for filing a 2020 tax return if filed by a tax professional.

🟡 Payments to families with children of 100 €. Families will receive payments along with Kindergeld. Families where they began to receive children's money only in 2022 will receive a payment with a delay.

🕒Events

May 8th is Mother's Day.

🟡 On May 15, the population census in Germany will begin. The census will be accompanied by a survey on housing conditions.

🟡 On May 16, from 4:28 to 5:29, it will be possible to observe a total lunar eclipse from Germany

✅Internet changes

🟡 Online stores are becoming more transparent: platforms should indicate what criteria the ratings are based on. Comparison portals such as Check24 and Idealo should also indicate which vendors they are looking at.

🟡 It will be necessary to clearly indicate the type of seller on the Internet: reseller, manufacturer or individual.

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♻️Prices, products

🟡 Less confusion when comparing prices in the store. Sellers will be required to quote prices in kilograms, liters and meters. And not the price per 100 grams, for example, on one product and per 1 kg on the next one.

🟡 A new wave of beer price increase is expected. A case of beer will cost an average of 1 euro more. (What to do? *author's comment)

🟡 Sales outside the office for amounts exceeding 50€ are prohibited. The so-called Haustürgeschäfte. Do you find that in Germany someone goes from door to door and sells goods?

🟡 Ban on promotional tourist trips to sell something unnecessary. Write, have you encountered something similar in Germany? Fines from 10.000€.

🟡 The separate Sparkasse Köln-Bonn significantly increase their rates (up to 9 euros, instead of 7,79 euros before). It is expected that this will become widespread in the Sparkasse.

🔆Energy news

🟡 In Baden-Württemberg, an obligation is introduced to use solar panels in the construction of new houses.

🟡 From January 1, 2023, there will be an obligation to install solar panels when repairing the roof

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