Entfernungspauschale 2026 berechnen: 38 Cent je Kilometer und die Steuerersparnis
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 18 Oct 2026.Ab 2026 beträgt die Entfernungspauschale 0,38 Euro für jeden vollen Kilometer der kürzesten Straßenverbindung, schon ab dem ersten Kilometer und für jeden Arbeitstag (§ 9 EStG). Ohne eigenes Auto ist sie auf 4.500 Euro im Jahr begrenzt. Steuern spart nur der Teil über dem Arbeitnehmer-Pauschbetrag von 1.230 Euro. Bei 25 Kilometern an 220 Tagen sind das 2.090 Euro.
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The Entfernungspauschale, usually called Pendlerpauschale, lets employees in Germany deduct the trip to work from taxable income. This calculator works out the allowance for 2026 and the tax it actually saves.
The allowance (§ 9 EStG). For each day you go to your first place of work you deduct 0.38 euros for every full kilometre of the shortest road distance, one way. From 2026 the rate is the same from the first kilometre. The allowance covers all costs of the trip, whatever the means of transport. Without your own or a provided car it stops at 4,500 euros a year; by car there is no cap. Public transport tickets that cost more than the allowance can be deducted instead.
Why the saving is smaller than the allowance. Every employee already gets the Arbeitnehmer-Pauschbetrag of 1,230 euros a year (§ 9a EStG) without proof. Commuting and your other work costs (Werbungskosten) only lower the tax once together they pass that amount. The calculator takes your taxable income with the flat amount already deducted, lowers it by the part above 1,230 euros, and works out income tax by the 2026 tariff of § 32a EStG, single or with Splitting, plus the solidarity surcharge and, if you pay it, church tax of 8% or 9%. The difference is your saving.
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In 2026 the Pendlerpauschale is 0.38 euros for every full kilometre of the one-way road distance to your first place of work, for each day you go there, from the first kilometre. For 25 km on 220 days that is 2,090 euros deducted from your taxable income.
Only the part of your work costs above the 1,230 euro Arbeitnehmer-Pauschbetrag lowers your tax, at your personal tax rate. With 2,090 euros of commuting and a taxable income of 45,000 euros, 860 euros count and save 286 euros of income tax in 2026.
Without your own or a provided car the allowance stops at 4,500 euros a year, for example by train, bike or car-sharing. Driving your own car or a company car has no cap. Public transport tickets that cost more than the allowance can be deducted at their actual cost instead.
When your commuting allowance and other work costs together stay below 1,230 euros, the flat amount every employee gets anyway already covers them. A 10 km trip on 220 days gives 836 euros, so on its own it saves no tax at all.
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