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Is my privately purchased car tax deductible?

4.2/5(15)The good news first: You can always deduct your business travel for tax purposes. You can still use your car privately. However, vehicle taxation is complicated. The tax office knows several variations of taxation, so you can not always choose according to your taste. The starting point for taxation is whether your car is classified

Start-up ecosystem Munich – 2022 overview of the start-up scene M

the Munich start-up scene is not a hidden champion, the city on the Isar is at the forefront. After Berlin, the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region and the start-up regions of Hamburg and Stuttgart/Karlsruhe, Munich is one of the five start-up strongholds in Germany. According to the current Startup Monitor, the percentage has increased

Shortage of skilled workers in Germany: find solutions as a personnel manager

5/5(1)In a current Civey survey commissioned by the Bertelsmann Foundation Of a sample of 7,500 business decision makers surveyed, two-thirds (66%) said they currently have a shortage of skilled workers. In tracking skilled labor migration since the end of 2020, just over half of companies surveyed (54%) expressed an expectation that they would be short-staffed

Passau start-up study: Unequal ownership distribution in the founding team leads to more innovation

5/5(1)From the very beginning, founders should think about how to distribute ownership shares in their company among themselves. Researchers from the University of Passau, the ZEW – Leibniz Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim and the IÉSEG School of Management in Paris have found that teams are more innovative when ownership is unevenly distributed.

Seven out of ten workers are under professional pressure during the summer holidays

Calls from superiors, messages from your team or emails from business partners – seven out of ten employees (71 percent) can be reached professionally while on vacation this summer. Only a quarter (27%) don't want to be bothered with official requests during the holidays. This is the result of a representative survey of over 1,000

The pandemic is accelerating change in the world of work

Home office, flexible working hours and new forms of cooperation: the modernization and digitization of the world of work has accelerated further during the coronavirus pandemic. Currently, half of all employees (50 percent) in Germany work fully or partially in the home office or on the move. There is great support for more flexible forms

Founding a UG despite personal bankruptcy?

In principle, the state does not put any obstacles in place for a debtor to become self-employed. From a purely legal point of view, the establishment of a company is also possible in the event of personal bankruptcy. One Exception First of all: if it is not a personal bankruptcy, but also a business bankruptcy

Canceling activity registration – how do I cancel an activity registration?

4.37/5(19)Those who no longer carry out their business must also report it to the competent commercial office. This is regulated very clearly by section 14 of the GewO (trade regulations). Any change affecting trade must be reported to the competent authority. Of course, this also applies to the fact that you no longer want to

Founding a UG or GmbH for a blog with AdSense?

5/5(10)AS: the question arises with the separation in freelance or commercial activities. As a blogger, you can argue that you are clearly a "freelancer" in spirit, and both bloggers and independent editors who are not bound by instructions can certainly be considered freelancers, just like freelance journalists. In all likelihood, the Revenue Agency will also

Starting a part-time UG? Tax office, health insurance & Co?

4.88/5(16)When founding a company, no distinction is made between full-time and part-time foundation in most cases. It only matters to the health insurer if self-employment requires more or less than 15 hours a week (or 20 hours a week for some insurance companies). If you're below this, you don't have to pay your own self-employment

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Create a chatbot – step by step to your own chatbot

5/5(1)Constant availability is an essential element of customer retention today and in times of global demands that means 24/7. At the same time, hardly any company can afford to have employees available for customer support and requests. customers at any time of the day or night. It is possible to process many standardized inquiries with

This is how the German offices were permanently made more digital

The corona pandemic has triggered a sustained push towards digitization in German companies. About one in two people (49%) say that Corona has accelerated the digitization of their business model. This is one of the most important findings of a representative survey of 1,102 companies with 20 or more employees from all economic sectors on

metaverse? How does it taste?

Quantum computers, cryptocurrencies, chat bots: digitization goes hand in hand with numerous technical terms. But many cannot keep up with the ever-expanding dictionary of digitization. 75% of Germans have never heard of the Metaverse. While 15% have heard the term before, only 4% dare to explain it. Even Web3 and blockchain are still a mystery

Becoming self-employed as an IT consultant

Enthusiasm for technical solutions, ability to relate to people and provide them with the solution to their problem: this is what characterizes an IT consultant. Your clients, but also the activities and teams you work with change with each new project. The topics required are varied, and a specialization is probably worth considering. Network

Online banking becomes smartphone banking

Classic online banking is becoming smartphone banking. For the first time, two-thirds (67%) of online banking users are using their mobile phones. One year ago it was 64%, three years ago it was only 52%. For the first time, half of people over 65 who bank online are using their smartphone to do so. A

What you’ve always wanted to know: so that the Metaverse doesn’t remain a bohemian village

The metaverse or metaverse is currently considered to be the future of the internet in the tech scene. However, the term is still largely unknown in the German economy. Just over half of companies (55%) say they've never heard of the Metaverse. 17 percent have heard the term before, but don't know exactly what it

Startups are full of confidence

In the past two years, the situation for startups in Germany has improved. This is what 42% of tech startup founders say. Another 40 percent see no change, and only 12 percent complain about the deteriorating situation for start-ups. These are the results of a survey of around 150 technology startups commissioned by the digital

Heating, air conditioning, hot water: how companies can save energy

Does everyone in an office building turn on the heaters themselves or is the temperature automatically controlled based on the weather conditions and the respective room usage? Is the air conditioning running at full blast as the summer sun warms the rooms through the large windows or do the blinds automatically lower to keep things

Tips for your career: Many companies rely solely on digital applications

By email, online tool and video call: The use of digital technologies in the application process is standard. Every company in Germany now allows job applicants to apply for jobs online. Four out of ten companies (42%) even rely exclusively on digital application documents. This is at least partially the case for the remaining 58%.

German IT companies want to increase the proportion of women, but nobody feels responsible

The digital economy wants to promote women more. 24 percent of companies have set goals to increase the proportion of women. Another 14 percent are planning it in concrete terms, and 29 percent are currently discussing it. For 29% of companies, however, these goals will not be a problem in the future either. These are

Is my privately purchased car tax deductible?

4.2/5(15)The good news first: You can always deduct your business travel for tax purposes. You can still use your car privately. However, vehicle taxation is complicated. The tax office knows several variations of taxation, so you can not always choose according to your taste. The starting point for taxation is whether your car is classified

Start-up ecosystem Munich – 2022 overview of the start-up scene M

the Munich start-up scene is not a hidden champion, the city on the Isar is at the forefront. After Berlin, the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region and the start-up regions of Hamburg and Stuttgart/Karlsruhe, Munich is one of the five start-up strongholds in Germany. According to the current Startup Monitor, the percentage has increased