The chairman of the CSU regional group in the Bundestag, Alexander Dobrindt, wants to promote working in the home office more tax-wise.
So far, employees can claim 600 euros per year.
The chairman of the CSU regional group in the Bundestag, Alexander Dobrindt, is committed
to promoting
working in the home office *
more tax-
wise
.
The German Press Agency (dpa) reported on this, referring to an interview by Deutschlandfunk with the CSU politician.
In
Deutschlandfunk
, Dobrindt proposed a
flat rate of 1,000 euros per year
- as a “signal to a modernizing world of work”.
Dobrindt wanted to include this demand in his own words in the election program of the CSU, which should exist in addition to the joint program with the CDU, wrote dpa on the occasion of the interview.
Corona pandemic: Home office flat rate of a maximum of 600 euros per year
According to the current regulation, you can
claim
five euros
per
home office day
, up to
a maximum of 600 euros per year
.
Anyone who was already working from home in the previous year can now apply 5 euros per day in the home office to the income tax return for 2020, with a maximum of 600 euros per year.
Home office flat rate counts as advertising costs - what critics say
The objection of critics to the previous regulation:
The flat rate is one of the
advertising costs
.
Therefore, only those taxpayers would benefit from this, who come above the already applicable
advertising fee of 1,000 euros
.
In other words: the maximum of 600 euros is only profitable if the employee has additional income-related expenses.
Because only when all professional expenses together exceed the amount of 1,000 euros per year, this has a tax-reducing effect.
Advertising costs include, for example, training costs you have paid yourself, expenses for work clothing or specialist literature.
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: Money back after home office: What you can state in your tax return
Association proposes mobile work flat rate of 1,000 euros
The
Federal Association of SME sector
hit
According dpa
before
, one from the Home Office fee of a maximum of 600 euros per year
Mobile-work allowance of 1,000 euros
to make, "and without consuming single evidence in the tax return."
In addition, the immediate tax depreciation for office equipment should be increased from 1,000 to at least 1,500 euros, said Federal Managing Director Markus Jerger of the dpa.
After Corona: SPD demands the right to work from home for part of the annual working time
The
SPD penetrates
for the time after the corona pandemic, meanwhile, also
on a legal right for employees to the home office
for part of the annual working hours.
"Basically, employees should be able to work mobile or in the home office at least 24 days a year for a five-day week, if the activity allows," said party chairman Saskia Esken according to dpa of the "Augsburger Allgemeine" (July 2).
Home office has become enormously important during the corona pandemic and has changed the working world of many people.
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