A subject that is sensitive to the catering trade is currently being negotiated: the submission of tips. Now Spö is interfering financial minister Markus Marterbauer in the debate and warns: with the wrong step, waiters would now stay more in your pocket, but in the end you would look through your fingers. “Please pragmatism instead of ideology,” says the new spokesperson …
It is an emotional debate: in the catering industry the tip is a holy cow that should not be sacrificed.
In Germany, drinking money is subject to social security contributions. If the amounts were difficult to control in the past, the drinking money also seems to be in the registration wizards when the trend of the card payment increases. According to media reports on sometimes high additional requirements of the Austrian health insurance fund (ÖGK), a discussion was cooked.
The Chamber of Commerce and also various governors now want a new regulation for the tip. Located by the President of Burgenland Chamber, among others, the Governor of Lower Austria Johanna Mikl-Leitner called for a liberation of the tip of all taxes. Also Spö State Captain such as Hans Peter Doskozil and father Kaiser for new regulations.
In the “Krone” interview, Spö Finance Minister Markus Marterbauer cannot agree with this requirement. He contradicts his party Kaiser and Doskozil. Even more he warns the employees in the hospitality industry for temptation not to have to pay taxes.
Spö Finance Minister Marterbauer: “I say no”
Because tax is not inserted on the tip. “What it’s all about is the exemption from social security. Then I say no, because that means people in retirement or unemployment.
The Chamber of Commerce, which is currently negotiating a new regulation, can be heard that about 14 euros per month must be lost in pension performance. Say: a negligible amount.
Marterbauer: “It’s about every euro”
Here too, the Minister of Red Finance has a different perspective. In this industry: “There would be little pension anyway. It is about every euro that ensures that the standard of living is older age. Weighing social security contributes to the welfare state and social care for people”. Marterbauer organizes the negotiators: “I would be extremely careful.”
“Is about the personal money given”
The new spokesperson for the industry, the Tyrolean Alois Rainer, sees this argument more idealism as pragmatism: “It does not matter to the employee or a tax or tax is deducted. He is concerned about the money he personally gave him as an appreciation for the extracilometer that he makes for his customers.
Rainer says little of the promise of “about 20 euros more pension and that in 20, 30 or even 40 years. That will not increase the motivation of the employees. He demands from Marterbauer:” Let the ideology in this discussion make way for pragmatism. You don’t have to debate everything negatively, but just send our employees what they are entitled to. “
Source: Krone
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