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The Final Teleworking Rules – Home Office

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We are pleased to inform you that on 17 December 2021 the new regulations were adopted regarding the teleworking – home office – labour law and the related occupational safety and health and tax rules.

The good news is that the final regulation repeated without any change the rules was introduced on 3 July 2021 in the Decree No. 487/2020 of 11 November 2020 (“Summer Rules”). At that time, it was uncertain if the Summer Rules would survive the end of the state of emergency.
Just remind you, the Summer Decree extended the definition of teleworking to the employees who work from their home in 2/3rd or more of their annual working hours and perform their works via IT system.

In addition, the employers might apply different occupational safety and health rules regarding such remote workers, as the employer was obliged to inform the employee about the safety requirements, and the employees were liable for selecting a working pace that is compliant with the requirements disclosed by the employer.
The employers may provide their employees with tax-free allowances for teleworking up to 10% of the monthly minimum wage.

The new rules incorporate all the transitional provisions of the Summer Rules on teleworking into the relevant Acts concerned Act I of 2012 on the Labour Code, Act XCIII of 1993 on Labour Protection, Act CXVII of 1995 on Personal Income Tax), and become part of the legal system and will remain with us in the long term.

The new legislation is particularly important as it mitigates the uncertainty whether the employment contracts already amended and made compliant with the Summer Decree should be amended again once the state of emergency situation has ceased to exist and another rules would be introduced.

The good news for those who have already implemented the teleworking Summer Rules and amended the employment contract accordingly, there is nothing to be done neither now nor when the new regulations enter into force.

For those who have not yet taken advantage of the possibility offered by the Summer Rules, we recommend using the time for implementing the rules until the new statutory rules enters into force the at the end of the emergency, which is unknown future date.

Should you have any questions regarding the above, feel free to contact us.

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Deductions from the corporate tax base during the state of emergency

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On 30 April 2020 another tax relief has been published with regards to the state of emergency.
This time, the provisions of tax base deductions set out in Act LXXXI of 1996 on Corporate Tax and Dividend Tax are extended in the tax years during the emergency and in the taxpayer’s choice in the tax year 2019 as well, in accordance with the following:

1. The pre-tax profit is reduced by the amount of earnings retained and transferred to the reserve in the tax year by the corporate taxpayer and shown as a reserve on the last day of the tax year, but not more than the pre-tax profit and up to HUF 10 billion per tax year (“development reserve”). Prior to the tax relief, the development reserve could not exceed 50% of the taxpayer’s pre-tax profit for a given tax year, this restriction does not apply under the new rules.

2. If the taxpayer chooses to apply the new rule to the 2019 tax year, but has already submitted its 2019 tax return by 1 May 2020, it may form a reserve for the 2019 tax year in accordance with the rules of accounting control within a self-revision procedure. until 30 September 2020.

3. If the tax return has not yet been submitted, but the taxpayer already has an approved financial statement, it may form a reserve for the approved report in accordance with the rules of accounting control.

 

Certain Tax and Corporate Deadline and Processes

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During the state of emergency and the implemented partial curfew, the continuous decision-making of companies could easily become impossible. In order to prevent this, as of 11 April 2020 different rules apply to the decision-making process of the obstructed companies, and the mandate term of certain company officers is also extended for this period.

By definition, the decision-making rules do not apply to companies not obstructed by the exceptional circumstances, for example in the case sole member companies.

During the emergency and until the 90th day after its end, the term of managing directors, board members (e.g. supervisory board members) and auditor may not be terminated as a result of expiration or resignation and these officers shall continue to carry out their duties during this time. This provision also applies to unhindered companies, but of course it is also possible to elect new officers during the state of emergency.

A new rule to be applied to all taxpayers is that the deadline for preparing, disclosing, depositing, publishing and submitting financial statements of the Accounting Act due after 22 April 2020 is extended until 30 September 2020. In the case of the main types of tax (corporate and dividend tax, small business tax, local business tax, etc.), the tax assessment, declaration and payment obligations, as well as the tax advance assessment and declaration obligation to be fulfilled simultaneously with the annual tax returns can also be fulfilled by this extended deadline.

The income related tax changes in 2019: the new type of social contribution tax (SZOCHO)

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The Act LII of 2018 on the social contribution tax was published on 31 July, 2018 and it will significantly increase the tax items payable after the wages and other incomes from January 1, 2019.
The termination of healthcare contribution (EHO) and SZOCHO with the rate of 19.5% on income instead of EHO are considered to be significant changes of the new regulation.

The new provisions clearly increase the dues of the employers, e.g. increasing tax rate after the fringe (non-wage) benefits, increase of tax base for calculating and the tax rate in case of dividend income, and the significant reduction of tax reliefs. Therefore during planning of wages for the next year, the following new rules shall be considered.

In case of the income withdrawn from the business account, dividend income, entrepreneurial dividend fund, capital gains income, the maximum amount of SZOCHO shall be increased to19,5 percent of twenty-four times of the minimum wage, which shall be HUF 645.000, – calculating with the minimal wage in the present year – from the current amount of HUF 450.000. In addition, the base of SZOCHO payable after the insured member of general partnership, limited partnership and limited liability company shall be 112,5 percent of the minimum wage.

Generally the pay office/employer shall pay SZOCHO, however in some special case the private person earning the income shall pay the SZOCHO. There are special legal provisions regarding assignment, temporary agency work and employment relationship established by more than one employer.

Abolished tax reliefs

– tax relief for young employees under 25 years and employees over 55;
– tax relief for participants in Karrier Híd Program;
– tax relief for research and development activity;
– tax relief enforceable by the employer employing doctoral candidate employees or students participating doctoral education determining by the Act CCIV of 2011 on the national higher education;
– tax relief for permanent job-seekers;
– tax relief in connection with the payment of child care allowance and benefit.

Please note that the tax relief which may be claimed for definite period of time shall not be ceased automatically by 1 January, 2019. These may be obtained during the entire validity period.

The following group of people will be entitled to tax reliefs from the next year:

– the unskilled workers and employees in agricultural positions;
– people who have been out of job for a particular period of time;
– woman nursing three or more children,
– disabled employees,
– workfare workers.

Only one type of tax relief shall be claimed regarding any employee at the same time. In case of eligibility for more tax reliefs, the employer may decide, which tax relief to claim.