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They always make you especially happy when you fill out the tax return: the deductions. For example, all business expenses that non-self-employed people can deduct, that is, the cost of subscribing to SBB, the car you need to travel to work or the additional costs of lunch during work.
In the crown year, however, some of these costs are eliminated because many employees were not working in the business, but at home in the home office. However, the cantons are complacent. Canton of Zurich taxpayers shouldn’t worry about how many days they worked from home this year and how many at the actual workplace when completing their tax return.
Pragmatic solution
Philipp Betschart from the cantonal tax office says: “Employed persons can claim travel costs, additional costs for meals and other professional costs on the 2020 tax return as they would have been incurred without these measures to combat the pandemic of Covid 19 “.
So, for example, you can still withdraw a subscription from SBB for twelve months even if you haven’t been to work for three months because of Corona. In addition to Zurich, other cantons such as Lucerne, Solothurn and Basel-Landschaft have already opted for this pragmatic solution.
Special regulation in the canton of Bern
In the canton of Bern there is also a special regulation for people who had to continue driving to work despite the blockade, as Berne’s tax administrator Claudio Fischer says: “We understand that it was difficult to use public transport during the blockade and therefore therefore, I would also accept the deductions for the actual costs of the car for the moment. “
In principle, it would be possible to claim the central office installation costs on the tax return. However: in this case, according to Fischer, there is no lump sum for so-called “other professional expenses”, which in most cantons is between 2000 and 4000 francs: “I guess you tend to drive worse when you work from home wants to. deduct something as if it were just claiming these normal costs. “
Not all cantons have yet decided how to regulate professional expenses in corona 2020. For taxpayers, the bottom line is probably the cheapest if they handle it as if Corona doesn’t even exist.
