During the Corona crisis, employers are increasingly relying on working from home.
Deutsche Bank has now brought a home office tax into play.
Reducing contacts and avoiding full buses and trains - in order to keep the risk of infection with the coronavirus as low as possible, politicians are also calling on companies to
enable home offices
, as far as
possible
.
An expert from the analysis and research department of Deutsche Bank sees
advantages for employees
and demands that they stand up for the economically weaker.
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Home office tax as compensation for economic losses
In a short article for the department of the Deutsche Bank, the analyst emphasizes that people who
work in the home office would bring
less money into circulation
: “Working from home enables direct savings on travel, lunch, clothing and cleaning ".
Sectors of the economy that had previously covered these areas would suffer severely from the lack of income.
Therefore, the analyst suggests
taxing
the
gross income of employees
who can work from home
at five percent
.
However, this should only apply to days on which those affected are actually in the home office.
The money collected in this way can be used to support people who have become unemployed or low-wage earners during the Corona crisis.
The
analyst estimates the
additional income
for the state
to be around 15.9 billion euros
.
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Expert criticism for the analyst's approach
Meanwhile, criticism of the proposal does not only come from social networks.
Even
experts doubt the usefulness of such a tax
, even though the redistribution idea is met with approval.
For example, Jan Schnellenbach, economics professor at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus, thinks the proposal goes against the
sense of justice of
those who feared financial losses due to the home office.
He also demands: “If you want to redistribute, you can fix that on the income.
Whether someone works from home is not an indicator of economic performance. "
The implementation of such a tax is questionable anyway.
Politicians are currently planning to make work from home easier for employees and anchored in law.
Therefore
tax breaks
are planned
instead of higher costs.
(lw) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen central editorial network.
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