300 euros once in addition to the salary: This is how the government wants to relieve employees
Created: 04/11/2022, 17:28
By: Anne Hund
According to the traffic light plans, every employee who is subject to income tax and who is classified in tax brackets 1-5 should receive a one-time gross lump sum of 300 euros.
The traffic light coalition is reacting to the sharp rise in energy and fuel prices* with extensive relief for people in Germany worth billions.
The traffic light relief package includes a flat-
rate energy price allowance of 300 euros.
Who should benefit from this flat rate in the future?
Energy flat rate of 300 euros: who gets the money?
The traffic light coalition is reacting to the sharp rise in energy and fuel prices with extensive relief.
An important component is the planned energy flat rate.
© Frank Kleefeldt/dpa
According to the German Press Agency (dpa), the coalition leaders have agreed on this: Every
employee
who is subject to income tax and who is classified in tax brackets 1-5 should receive the one-time gross lump sum of 300 euros.
The
money is paid out by the employer as a salary subsidy
,
for the self-employed the advance tax payment is reduced instead
.
The lump sum is subject to income tax.
If you have a high tax rate, you get less out of it in the end –
if you stay below the basic tax-free allowance, you benefit from the full amount
.
In this way, the middle of society is relieved quickly, unbureaucratically and socially justly, according to the dpa in the traffic light paper.
If pensioners or people with a
tax-free mini-job
should also benefit, the traffic light would have to clarify that, the dpa report continues.
The Parity Welfare Association complained in the "Rheinische Post" (
March 25
) of a "social imbalance".
In a report on
Businessinsider.de (as of March 25)
on the
energy price flat rate mentioned
meanwhile, among other things, it says: "Pensioners, students and others who do not work or earn too little will go away empty-handed." The money is paid out by the employers to their employees.
The companies could then get the amount back from the state.
The Business Insider report goes on to say: "If pensioners, students and others do a midi job (450 to 1300 euros per month), then they also benefit from the protection according to the traffic light government's plans."
Energy price flat rate for employed persons: When will the money come?
Meanwhile, another question remained open, namely
when employed persons should receive the planned energy allowance of 300 euros
.
Nothing is known about this yet, for example the Südwestpresse reported in its online edition (
SWP.de, as of March 24
), but the decision paper states that things should be done "quickly".
"It can be assumed that citizens will have to be patient a little longer," writes the portal.
Businessinsider.de
also reported (as of March 25) that,
according to the decision paper, citizens should receive the money "quickly" - that is, before the end of this year, as the report goes on to say.
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Flat rate employee allowance was increased to 1,200 euros
The coalition had previously decided that – in order to support employees in view of the increased energy prices – the
employee allowance
for income tax would be increased by 200 euros
to 1,200 euros, retrospectively from January 1, 2022
.
Regulation on the tax-free Corona bonus will expire soon
Companies that also want to voluntarily give their employees a
corona bonus of up to 1,500 euros
to mitigate the consequences of the pandemic must hurry: the corresponding regulation expires on March 31, 2022.
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