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After short-time work: Are you also threatened with additional tax payments?

2021-03-12T16:04:36.490Z


In the corona pandemic, short-time work benefits are helping many employees. If you have received it, you can usually not avoid the tax return. Is there a risk of additional tax payments?


In the corona pandemic, short-time work benefits are helping many employees.

If you have received it, you can usually not avoid the tax return.

Is there a risk of additional tax payments?

Many people were or are on

short-time work

in the corona crisis

.

Between February 1 and February 24 alone, the Federal Employment Agency received short-time work notifications for 500,000 people.

This was reported by the German Press Agency (dpa, as of March 11).

In December, 2.39 million people were

paid

short-time work

benefits

, according to the report

.

The peak was reached in April last year with almost six million people.

Some employees are threatened with additional tax claims due to short-time working

For many companies and millions of employees,

short-time work

is

the saving anchor

in the corona crisis

*.

But with the

tax return in the year after

, as it is described in the report, some people face a

nasty surprise

: Because although the short-time allowance itself is tax-free,

additional payments

could be made

to the employees.

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Short-time work allowance: When employees have to pay taxes later

Anyone who received short-time work benefits in 2020 does not pay any taxes themselves.

However, the short-time work allowance is subject to the

progression proviso.

This leads to the fact that the short-time work allowance increases the tax rate for the other income, dpa describes the background.

Therefore, an additional tax payment is quite possible, explains Isabel Klocke from the taxpayers' association, according to dpa.

This could apply, for example, if the employee worked fewer hours a week and his wages were topped up with short-time work allowance;

But: "Often there will also be a tax refund because too much wage tax was deducted for the wages," said the expert.

Whether there is a

risk of back payments

depends on the individual case, sometimes there is also a

refund.

How much taxes the employee has to pay for his wages - taking into account the short-time work allowance - and how much taxes he has already repaid through the wage tax deduction is checked with the income tax return.

Two examples:

  • Tax refund:

    A single with tax class I earns a gross monthly income of 4,500 euros.

    In 2020 he will receive short-time work (0) for 3 months, a total of 4,920 euros.

    The employer withheld wage tax totaling 7,380 euros for his regular wages.

As dpa writes, the calculation in the example works as follows: With the short-time work allowance, there is an income tax of around 6,632 euros to be determined for 2020.

Since 7,380 euros have already been paid through the wage tax deduction, there is a tax refund of around 748 euros.

  • Tax arrears:

    A single with tax class I earns a gross monthly income of 2,500 euros.

    In 2020 he will receive short-time work for 6 months (50).

    During this time, in addition to the gross monthly wage of EUR 1,250, a total of EUR 2,787 short-time allowance is paid.

    The net wage with short-time allowance is higher here than if the single had only received short-time allowance (0).

In the example, according to the dpa, the invoice works like this: For 2020, wage tax of 1,834.50 euros was withheld.

With the short-time work allowance, there is an income tax of EUR 2,136 to be determined for 2020.

Since only around 1,835 euros were repaid through the wage tax deduction, there is an additional tax payment of 301 euros.

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Tax return 2020: Obligation to submit for many on short-time work

As far as the

tax return

* is concerned, those affected should know: Anyone who received

more than EUR 410 in short-time work

benefits in

2020

must

submit

a tax return

for the

past year

.

This is what the Lohnsteuerhilfeverein Vereinigte Lohnsteuerhilfe e.

V. (VLH), as the dpa also reported.

Those affected might also have to prepare for an

additional tax payment

.

The short-time work allowance is tax-free, but it increases the personal tax rate.

Therefore, it is all the more important not


to forget

any

expenses in your tax return in order to keep any additional tax payments small, explains Erich Nöll from the Federal Association of Income Tax Aid Associations (BVL), according to dpa.

Corona bonus in addition to salary: This bonus is tax-free

It looks different, as dpa also reports, if the employer has paid a special

corona bonus

of up to 1,500 euros in

addition to the salary

.

This premium is therefore tax-free.

Employees therefore do not have to declare them in their tax return.

Unlike the short-time work allowance, this amount does not affect the personal tax rate.

(ahu) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

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Source: merkur

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