This gem contains tools to calcuate taxes in Germany.

Currently supported is calculating Lohnsteuer. To achieve this, The pseudo code describing tax caluculations from the Minstery of Finance is used to automatically create Ruby code from this.

(German description for SEO purposes):

Dieses Gem enthält Routinen zum Berechnen von Steuern in Deutschland (Lohnsteuer).

Der Programmcode zur Berechnung der Lohnsteuer wurde automatisch anhand der vom Bundesministerium für Finanzen zur Verfügung gestellten Pseudocode-Vorlagen erstellt.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'taxger'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install taxger

require 'taxger'

# calculate Lohnsteuer for 2015:
# stkl: 1, # Steuerklasse I (stkl), 70.000,00 EUR
# lzz: 1,  # Lohnzahlungszeitraum Jährlich (Salary re4 contains yearly
#          # salary)
# re4: 70_000 * 100 # Salary is 70.000,00 EUR
tax = Taxger::Lohnsteuer.calculate(2015, stkl: 1, lzz: 1, re4: 70_000 * 100)
puts tax.lstlzz # Lohnsteuer für Lohnzahlungszeitraum (Income tax for
                # specified interval of one year

Have a look into the files in lib/taxger/lohnsteuer/*.rb to see possible values. The initialize method contains all parameters below the # INPUTS section- comments are taken from the official pseudo code sources.

Resulting values are listed under # OUTPUTS with comments (and can be accessed with getter methods under the same name).

Further documentation on field names is available from official government resources

require 'taxger'

# calculate income tax for 2015:
tax = Taxger::Einkommensteuer.calculate(2015, 70_000 * 100)
puts tax.ekst # => 21138_00 (Income tax in cents)
puts tax.solz # =>  1162_59 (Solidaritätszuschlag in cents)

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

The code to calculate Lohnsteuer (see files in lib/taxger/lohnsteuer/ are auto generated from XML pseudo code given by the Ministery of Finance.

To regenerate or update these files, have a look into src/README.md.

Original author (2015):

• Malte Münchert

Contributions from Wundertax GmbH

• @jalyna
• @bryszard

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/mpm/taxger. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.