German VERB B2 Rank 14984

versteuern

to pay tax on

versteuern – versteuerte – hat versteuert

Checking...

Loading your saved state.

Meanings

Forms

Forms adapted from the German Wiktionary entry versteuern, by Wiktionary contributors, licence CC BY-SA 4.0.

Usage tips

Compare with

confusable

versteuern vs besteuern

to tax

Besteuern describes the state imposing a tax on income, goods, or services. Versteuern, by contrast, describes the person liable for tax paying the required taxes on their own income, profits, or assets.

Visual example for besteuern
versteuern

Die Selbstständige muss ihr zusätzliches Einkommen versteuern.

The self-employed woman has to pay tax on her additional income.

besteuern

Der Staat besteuert das zusätzliche Einkommen der Selbstständigen.

The state taxes the self-employed person's additional income.

Open full word page: besteuern

In real life

Loading video examples...