Expensive electricity bills: That's how much more you have to pay when you work from home
Created: 01/04/2022, 4:32 PM
From: Juliane Gutmann
Everyday work in 2021 looked something similar in many places: Working from home from the kitchen table.
© Eugenio Marongiu / Imago
The more time you spend in your own four walls, the higher the electricity bill.
You can read about the influence of home office regulations here.
The desk lamp, the battery of the laptop or the kettle: Those who work from home usually use more electricity than usual. This is also reflected in the electricity bill.
The comparison
portal Check24
has determined how home office affects the monthly electricity payments.
Accordingly, working from home * incurs additional costs of around 25 to 43 cents per day.
This corresponds to an annual amount of up to 94 euros.
But it depends on how often you work from home.
According to
the
Spiegel
,
Check24
based
the
calculation
on the
following parameters
:
220 days of home work (laptop is operated eight hours a day, as well as a monitor and an LED desk lamp)
The kettle or coffee machine is used ten minutes a day on home work days;
the electric stove for half an hour or the microwave for five minutes.
The average price per kilowatt hour of electricity is 33.9 cents
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Claim home office for tax purposes
As the
mirror
further reported, additional costs for heating, water or internet were not charged.
The additional costs of up to 94 euros per year are therefore exclusively the charges for electricity.
The expenses that arise from home office can be deducted for tax purposes.
Employees can deduct up to 600 euros from home office flat-rate as business expenses or business expenses.
This is around five euros per working day in the home office - for a maximum of 120 days a year.
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