With the decision of the Federal Finance Court (BFG 19.12.2024, RV/3100544/2017) and the subsequent statement by the Federal Ministry of Finance on April 2, 2025, the decades -long financial administration practice was surprisingly ended as tax -free.
Employees: In the inside, for public holidays that fall on a regular working day, their normal wages, they also work on these holidays, then you will receive it again in the form of the so -called holiday wage.
By December 31, 2024, this wage for working on the holiday was treated tax -free, but since January 1, 2025 it has to be taxed as a regular wages.
“This step is the next hard blow for the employees: inside of our industry,” said Georg Imlauer, chairman of the Hotelery Association in the Austria Chamber of Commerce (WKÖ) and the top industry spokesman. Because the tax exemption from overtime supplements also affects the employees: inside. In this way, overtime surcharges in the case of multi -month reduction periods cannot be asserted tax -free for every month, but only for the last month of the calculation.
“It cannot be seen that employees: work inside who work on public holidays and work overtime are now being worse in tax purposes than before. Work and performance must be worthwhile again – more net of gross! We are fighting for the concerns of our employees and expecting the union here.”
Appeal and demand
For months, the Austrian hotel industry has been pushing for changes in the law, which again permanently releases the work on the holiday from wage tax and enables tax -free overtime surcharges. “We appeal to the corresponding legal repairs in the interests of the employees: to carry out as quickly as possible. We trust that the union also supports this concern in the interests of its members – entirely in the spirit of our joint understanding that it is about the matter and the well -being of the entire industry. A change in the law would not only be correct, but also a sign of appreciation: Interior and entrepreneurs: Interior and entrepreneurship, which the Austrian hospitality live every day and at the same time Develop, ”said Obmann Imlauer. (PwK308/ES)
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