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Categories of Income

The seven categories of taxable income.

Income tax law recognizes seven categories of income: from agriculture and forestry, from a trade or business, from self-employment, from employment, from capital assets, from renting and leasing, and other income. Only what falls under these is taxable.

The relevant statutes

§ 2 EStG

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