We currently miss a total of 20,000 specialists in the tourism sector. “Bureaucracy samples”, such as the delivery to tips, also make the search for staff more difficult. After “Krone” reports and criticism from the Chamber of Commerce, two governors for the first time with the request to remove the removal of the levy.
“That’s right,” says Landauf, Landab at the host. As is known, the Austrian Health Fund is still the many gastro employees. Tips are inserted on tips in all countries. There are specially defined fixed rates in seven federal states. Styria and Salzburg have no fixed rates, tips can also be taxed higher. Also, or more and more taverns (a lack of staff (20,000 specialists forever) are missing), the alarm bells have long increased in the industry due to the acute lack of staff.
“A bureaucratic monster for companies, an officially orchestrated demotivation tool for employees,” said landlord Mario Pulker in the “Krone”. He wants to abolish the previous fixed rates to make the industry more attractive again – and now receives further prominent support from politics.
Performance must be worthwhile
Lower Austria’s ÖVP State captain Johanna Mikl-Leitner campaigns against the “Krone” for a complete liberation of tips in the catering trade and taxes. “The performance must be worth it. And the tip is one of the most direct forms of performance costs in the home country of hospitality. The tip is not out of the air. The employees therefore deserve it because of their performance. I therefore support the demand for a tax and tax exemption of the tip,” said the powerful ÖVP politician.
Removal would be “first signal”
This would be a first signal from the federal government, even in times of scarce funds for public health insurance policies that she takes seriously about reducing the high tax burden. Because to get the economic engine back, according to Mikl-Leitner, you also have to relieve those who do something. “Work performance must pay more than social benefits. Anyone who goes to work can understand that,” said the governor.
The current situation is unsatisfactory, but also says Burgenland’s Spö State Captain Hans Peter Doskozil. He understood that employees in the service sector criticize the tax on drinking money and on the other hand, companies feel overwhelmed by reimbursements.
Doskozil calls for “solution”
Doskozil warns: “It would be high that the federal government finds a solution that is in economically difficult times – especially the much -discussed tavern death – care for the needs of employees and companies. Especially in the service sector with many low low areas, it must work to make working conditions more attractive and not to care for.”
Source: Krone
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