The tourism branch has hit the corona virus crisis particularly hard economically. Chamber of Commerce Secretary General Karlheinz head (ÖVP) Explained in the ZIB2 of ORFThe fact that the credit guarantees for companies are designed to run for five years also applies to tourism. You would now be granted once within the next three months, said head.
He responded to a statement by the Neos tourism spokesman Sepp Schellhorn, who had previously asked on the show “that liquidity injections and liability guarantees should be provided for at least 365 days.” head: “If you see that it will take longer, and that is foreseeable in tourism, then I am sure that you will be able to think and talk about an extension of the deadline.”
Hardship fund: clarity within two days
Occasion of the invitation Head was the second phase of the Hardship fund for the self-employed. After the first five hours, the Chamber of Commerce had received around 27,500 applications. “Not bureaucratic and fast” head the application and processing of the hardship fund in the ZIB2.
In contrast to the statements of some entrepreneurs who are no longer familiar with bureaucratic requirements and various funding sources. Loud head the entrepreneur would only have to state two things when applying, the actual earnings between mid-March and mid-April and the tax number. The applicant should be loud within two days head already Notice know if and how much money you get.
At the Hardship fund it’s not about maintaining the company’s fixed operating costs, but about personal life-sustaining costs. There is the Corona Aid Fund for the fixed costs, explained head.
144,000 applications already submitted
So far, 144,000 applications for emergency aid have been submitted to the Chamber of Commerce responsible for processing. A total of EUR 121 million was paid out, the total amount in the pot is EUR 2 billion, which should now be paid out.
In contrast to the emergency aid in phase 1, up to € 2,000 per month is paid as support in phase 2 for three months – in total up to € 6,000 per micro enterprise. If they prove an “economically significant threat from COVID-19”, those affected usually receive 80 percent of the loss of earnings.
After criticizing the eligibility criteria, the definition of a hardship case has been relaxed. In the second phase, multiple insured are also entitled. Secondary income is no longer an exclusion criterion and also high earners who before the crisis Earning more than 5,000 euros gross per month are now considered hardship cases. The lower limit of around EUR 460 per month was also deleted.
Head: automated testing
head had dismissed concerns from entrepreneurs about handling sensitive data at the beginning of the second phase. The examination of the applications is automated. It is done “via an automated interface to the tax act,” said head already in the Ö1 morning journal. He reaffirmed this in the ZIB2.
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