From next year, employees in the Czech Republic could pay a tax on gross, not super-gross wages. “It is necessary to reduce the tax burden on employees and it would be good to return to the 15% that the ODS promised and then did not fulfill,” said Prime Minister Babiš.
For example, an employee with a gross salary of 30,000 would improve by fifteen hundred crowns a month. The government has the abolition of the super-gross wage in a program statement, but has long rejected the proposal of the opposition ODS.
“We have unsuccessfully demanded it for five years, it seems that the Prime Minister has changed his mind. This is good news for taxpayers,” comments Zbyněk Stanjura from the ODS on Babiš’s move.
Among other things, the Communists criticize the proposal, according to which it would place an even greater burden on the state budget. According to the Minister of Finance, the abolition of the super-gross wage will deprive the state coffers of 90 billion crowns.
Reporter Bára Divišová calculated how many crowns employees could improve:
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