Pension receipt notification

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The pension receipt notification is the transmission of pension data to the Central Allowance Agency for Retirement Assets (ZfA) , which has been required by law in Germany since 2005 in accordance with Section 22a EStG . The institutions of the statutory pension insurance, the general association of agricultural old-age funds, the professional pension funds , the pension funds , the insurance companies, the providers of Riester products and the providers of basic pensions are obliged to notify. The contents of the notification are information on the person of the pension recipient including the tax identification number , the pension amount, the legal basis for taxation and the period in which the pension is drawn. The purpose of the pension receipt notification is to ensure the taxation of the annuity.