Payroll Newsletter - Archive 2024
You will find below all payroll and personal agenda related articles from 2024.
Changes under discussion from 2025 - Initial occupational medical inspections
The Ministry of Health has prepared an amendment to Act No.373/2011 Coll., on Specific Health Services, concerning, among other things, initial occupational health inspections. The comment procedure has been completed and further developments are now awaited. The effective date of the amendment is proposed for 1 January 2025.
Employment of foreigners - Labour Office of the Czech Republic
If an employer employs foreigners, it is obliged to provide the Labour Office of the Czech Republic with information on the start or termination of their employment. In connection with the full digitalization of this obligation and on the basis of the amendment to Act No.435/2004 Coll. on Employment, employers must, from 1 July 2024, transmit information on foreigners to the Labour Office only in one of the following three ways (Section 87(5)):
Changes to the state contribution in the third pension pillar
As of 1 July 2024, there are changes concerning supplementary pension savings and supplementary pension insurance. The limits of the minimum contribution of the participant from which the state contribution is provided and the maximum contribution of the participant for which the maximum amount of the state contribution is provided are increased. The aim of this change is to motivate people to make higher monthly contributions in order to ensure that they have sufficient financial reserves for old age.
Records of agreements on work performance - changes from 1.7.2024
With effect from 1 July 2024, Act No. 163/2024 Coll. was approwed, which introduces a new obligation for employers in the area of sickness and pension insurance. This is the obligation to register employees who perform activities on the basis of a concluded agreement for the performance of work (DPP), including DPP on which no insurance premiums are deducted. The Czech Social Security Administration (CSSA) will now also register these employees in the register of insured persons, regardless of their monthly earnings.
A lump sum when working remotely
The amount of the lump sum for the reimbursement of costs for remote work is specified by the Decree of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs No. 397/2023 Coll. from 18.12.2023. From 1.1.2024, the flat rate of the reimbursement of costs for remote work is CZK 4.50 for each hour of work, in whole or in part, outside the employer’s workplace.
Wage deductions
From 1.1.2024, there is a decrease in the (basic) unseizable amount, as well as the limit of the fully seizable remainder of net wages (i.e. the calculation base), applied during enforcement deductions from wages and similar income.
Travel allowances
The basic rules for providing compensation for travel expenses remains unchanged. Employees in an employment relationship continue to be entitled to compensation, as are (under certain conditions) employees performing activities according to agreements to perform work or fixed work agreements, or executives and members of statutory bodies.
Taxes
As of 1.1.2024, some tax discounts for natural persons have been abolished in connection with the adoption of the consolidation package. This applies to the discount for a student (until 31/12/2023: Section 35ba (1) (f) of the Income Tax Act) and the discount for the placement of the child, i.e. school fees (this discount will be applied for the last time in the application for annual tax settlement or in the tax return for the year 2023). The taxpayer discount and the tax advantage for children remain unchanged in 2024.
Health insurance
The minimum assessment base for the payment of health insurance in 2024 amounts to CZK 18 900 per month, the minimum amount of the monthly premium amounts to CZK 2 552 (18 900 x 13.5% = CZK 2 552).
Social insurance premiums
Effective from 1.1.2024, the obligation to pay sickness insurance premiums also arises for employees (until now, employees were only payers of pension insurance premiums). The total premium rate for employees from 1.1.2024 is 7.1%.
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