Shielding against Electrosmog Is Tax Deductible

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Shielding against Electrosmog Is Tax Deductible

Press release from 2 April 2012

 

 

Expenses for the shielding of a condominium against RF radiation can be deducted

from the income tax as exceptional expenditures. The 10th Senate of the Finance

Court Cologne issued this decision on 8 March 2012 (10 K 290/11).

 

 

In her income tax return, the plaintiff claimed expenses of 17,075 euro for the

installation of RF radiation shielding to protect her condominium against

broadcast, TV, and cell phone radiation. The revenue office declined the

deduction of these expenses as exceptional expenditures because no certificate

by a medical officer regarding the necessity of such shielding had been supplied

and therefore could only be considered as a precautionary measure.

 

 

The 10th Senate of the Finance Court Cologne took another view and allowed the

deduction as medical expenditures. Necessary, and thus tax deductible, are not

only medically inevitable expenditures within the meaning of minimum provisions,

but rather expenditures of any diagnostic or therapeutic treatments whose

application is sufficiently justified in the case of disease.

 

 

To proof that the installation of the shielding was necessary, the Court was

satisfied with a certificate by a medical doctor in private practice regarding

the plaintiffÂ’s advanced electromagnetic hypersensitivity, and an expert report

by a building biology engineer about the RF radiation exposure levels of

“considerable concern” within the completed building envelope of the

condominium.

 

 

According to the SenateÂ’s ruling, no appeal against its decision can be filed

with the Federal Finance Court.

 

 

Complete decision in German 10 K 290/11

Original press release in German:

http://www.fg-koeln.nrw.de/presse/Pressemitteilungen/02_04_2012/index.php

 

 

Best regards,

Katharina

Katharina Gustavs

www.buildingbiology.ca

 

Note - You should also consider using small claims court to get expenses from

the offender(s).