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# Service charge (Hausgeld) of the WEG

Help on the Immodio entry item The WEG's service charge.

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Use this category for the **monthly service charge payments to your owners' association.**

#### What can be entered here?

Enter here the **full advance service charge payment** you make to the WEG for the respective freehold apartment. This is usually the monthly advance payment set by the WEG on the basis of the business plan.

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**Enter the total amount actually paid and do not deduct any individual components from it.** That also applies to the share of the service charge payment that goes to the maintenance reserve.
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Example: where your monthly service charge is **€350**, enter **€350** per month in this category. The later split into recoverable costs, non-recoverable costs and the maintenance reserve is made separately on the basis of the WEG annual statement.

#### Why should the service charge be maintained on a running basis?

The running service charge payments reflect the **advance payments actually made to the WEG**.

After the end of the billing year these advance payments are compared with the WEG annual statement. Where the statement gives a higher or lower amount, this can result in an **additional payment or a credit balance** with the WEG.

So that this comparison and the [**DATEV export**](/en/anleitung/einnahmen-und-ausgaben/datev-export.md) to your tax adviser can be made correctly, the service charge payments should be maintained in full in Immodio.

#### Assignment

For the assignment select **"Unit"** and then the freehold apartment for which the service charge was paid.

Where you own several freehold apartments within a WEG, record the service charge payments separately for each unit accordingly.

#### When this category should not be used

Do not enter here:

* additional payments or credit balances from the WEG annual statement,
* individual recoverable costs according to the WEG statement,
* non-recoverable costs according to the WEG statement,
* the separate contribution to the maintenance reserve according to the WEG statement,
* the WEG's use of the maintenance reserve,
* special payments for which a more suitable category is provided in Immodio.