Young, innovative and growing start-up companies often do not dispose of the necessary financial means to be able to offer monetary incentives to committed employees. The possibility of granting company shares to employees through employee share purchase plans is not particularly profitable given the current legal situation, since employees have to pay income tax when […]
Reduction of the employer’s contribution to the Austrian Family Burden Equalization Fund adopted as a further measure to cushion the price increase. Date of application The employer’s contribution will be reduced from previously 3.9% to 3.7% starting from the calendar year 2025. It is possible to reduce the employer’s contribution already in the years 2023 […]
As part of the inflation relief packages, a contribution-exempt and tax-exempt inflation bonus has been introduced for employees subject to wage tax obligations. The inflation bonus does not incur wage tax, social security contributions, severance fund contributions, or non-wage labour costs (employer contribution to the family allowance fund (DB), surcharge to the employer contribution (DZ), […]
We live, we work – and in the recent past we’ve started living and working in ‘new’ ways, using novel terms like hybrid work, mobile work, working from home, or even telework. In the terminological jungle of ‘Work 4.0’, words like these are often treated as synonyms. But what do they really mean? Hybrid work […]
Who do you see in front of you when you think of a CEO?
On 16 May 2022, Nadia Arouri and Rebecca Caric from the People & Culture Consulting team gave a talk at the University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna as part of an event organised by the Human Resources International Network (HUMINT). HUMINT offers a forum to exchange experiences of learning and teaching about Human Resources. The […]
How VR can help put the right people in the right places
‘The war on talent is raging’ Recent job market developments have demonstrated the increased leverage that employees have within organisations. While employer branding departments of many companies are searching for innovative ways of finding new talent, companies face another challenge with wide-ranging consequences: retention. For example, 20% of respondents to PwC’s current Global Workforce Hopes […]
Company parking spaces: Still free of charge, or will fees soon apply?
The extension of the parking space management scheme in Vienna means that employees may face additional costs from March 2022 as a result of the recognition of a benefit in kind for company parking spaces that were previously free of charge. What will change In only a few days time, from 1 March 2022, the […]
On 20 January 2022, the Austrian parliament approved tax-free profit participations for employees as part of the eco-social tax reform. If the legislation is passed, the measure will already apply to payments made in 2022. Many employers will be asking the following question: How can we make use of the tax benefit within existing bonus models? […]
Eco-social tax reform 2022 passed: overview of key measures for tax relief and greening
On 20 January 2022, further points of the ‘Eco-social tax reform 2022’, which has been the subject of much debate, were agreed by the Austrian Parliament. The reform contains relief measures in the area of taxes and social security, as well as measures that promote greening in Austria and thus make a significant contribution to achieving […]
Cryptocurrency and taxes – update on Austria’s ecosocial tax reform act
Cryptocurrencies have significantly increased in importance as an investment option in recent years. The ‘ecosocial’ tax reform in Austria thus includes changes to the tax system to take account of crypto assets. Employees working internationally, who hold crypto assets as part of their private assets, and whose tax residency changes due to an employment contract […]
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