The responsible waiter and the tip – Diepresse.com
The government and governors discuss how much money the state should get from the tip. There are big questions behind it – given a tax rate of 45 percent, there can only be one answer.
In the dispute over the tip, so early summer and without it comes along, there is a lot of things in it. It starts with digitization: the high politics only deals with the topic, because people simply pay their coffee and tips more and more with a cell phone or card instead of traditionally circulating in cash. This makes the flow flow much clearer for authorities and, above all, social security. In addition, there is the rampant labor shortage, especially in gastronomy, as well as the rightly complained hosthouse death. Then there would be the political balancing act, despite the deficit crisis – which also affects the health insurers – somehow to relieve those who do something. Or have done. And ultimately the overarching question of how far the state should actually interfere in all areas of life. And whether he should really find bureaucratically elaborately in shops such as tipping transfers into a single-digit euro height.
The coalition now has to confess in this mixture. In the government program, she vague to reorganize the different drinking rules from country to country. The governors from Lower Austria and the Burgenland plead to make tips completely free of charge in order to make the gastronomy more attractive as a job and to relieve companies. Background: wage and income tax does not apply to this, but it must be delivered via a flat-rate social security contributions. Which basically does not seem indecent, because it is practical about later pension and health care. One might think.
Because in a country in which the tax and tax rate has recently climbed to dizzying 45 percent, it cannot be about how work- especially difficult and often at night- should be even more stressed. But rather about how it gets less. Nevertheless, the « Vida » union recently moved out and warned with an adventurous argument against an exemption from tax: So a functional explained that just because of the losses that would threaten employees in the pension, taxes were absolutely necessary. In other words, that it would ultimately harm the employees if they were allowed to keep their tips entirely. You have to come to that first.
How about a new approach: that mature waiter or taxler could simply provide private provides or organize the like if you want that? Without the state immediately interfering?
