Payroll Newsletter - Archive 2024
You will find below all payroll and personal agenda related articles from 2024.
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%.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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