Financial politicians from the Union and the SPD have agreed on the final details of the home office flat rate.
But not everyone will benefit from the tax break.
Home office flat rate: Coalition sets final details for tax relief
Update from December 7, 2020:
In the case of the home office * flat rate, the Union and SPD have now agreed on the final details.
The tax lump sum should be
a maximum of 600 euros annually
, reports the
dpa.
A
few days ago, the SPD was still talking about 500 euros.
Also, another important point is now clear: The Home Office package is
included in the so-called related expenses
are
.
It is not granted additionally.
According to SPD parliamentary group vice-president Achim Post, employees who work in their own four walls can now more easily
claim
their
costs such as electricity, telephone and internet for
tax purposes.
But there is a catch: In reality, only those who can claim income-related expenses of more than 1,000 euros per year in their tax return will benefit from the tax relief.
This would be conceivable, for example, through new work clothes, further training or a particularly long journey - the latter is no longer necessary at home at home.
Those who are below this limit will unfortunately not feel the tax relief.
The flat rate for advertising costs (also:
advertising costs
) of 1,000 euros is deducted from the employees' income when calculating the tax.
This reduces the tax burden.
Anyone who has more than 1,000 euros in advertising costs per year must claim this in the tax return.
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Home office flat rate: five euros per day for employees
Original message dated November 30, 2020:
During the corona pandemic, many employees are working from home *.
But this also increases their ancillary costs such as electricity and water.
In order to accommodate the employees and to relieve them financially, finance politicians of the grand coalition have now
agreed
on a
home office flat rate
.
This is reported by the German Press Agency (dpa), referring to a report by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).
According to the FAZ, anyone who works from home should be able to
claim
a tax lump sum of
five euros per day from
the tax office.
But only up to a
maximum of 600 euros per year
.
"As the CSU, we want to relieve those who have achieved tremendous things from home during the pandemic," said the CSU financial politician Sebastian Brehm of the newspaper.
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Home office flat rate only planned as advertising expenses?
However, there is a catch: It is still unclear whether the home office flat rate in the tax return will be granted in addition to the employee flat rate of 1,000 euros.
In this case, employees would benefit directly, depending on the load.
However, if employees can
only claim them
as income-related expenses, only those employees would benefit who come up with more than 1,000 euros in income-related expenses in their tax return.
But that is exactly what the Treasury Department seems to be planning.
"If the home office flat rate were granted independently, ie in addition to the flat-rate fee for advertising expenses, this would be
an excessive (and thus constitutionally dubious) benefit,"
the FAZ quotes from the concept.
(as) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen central editorial network.
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