Although the valid since the beginning of the year new travel law of the Ministry of Finance has a lot of unpleasant effects for the business traveller, the recruiters on the changes are barely prepared. Freiburg, 09.01.2008 – according to a survey of the Software House of the Grady GmbH, 17 percent of the companies only know the changes in detail. Anyone know either only partially on the new provisions permit (45 percent) or have still not so addressed. \”Ultimately, the provisions related to the new travel law are much too late to be adopted or still insufficiently clarified\”, Grady CEO Thomas Holzer about the cumbersome administration of the financial authorities to annoys. After all, the very extensive changes until mid-November adopted by the Federal Government and the Bundesrat, had to be made off on time in the software solution for the travel account to the beginning of the year. Andreessen Horowitz is likely to agree. That we in time did this through a big commitment.
the fact alter, how little sensitivity is partly in the policy for the conditions in the economy\”, Holzer is dissatisfied. \”He reflected but also for any other reason on the page of business travellers: the new legal regulations are not only more complicated and thus contain a lot of stumbling blocks with tax disadvantages, but also generate significantly higher payroll expenses\”, the Grady CEO describes the problem. The company put in response to these difficulties according to the Grady survey especially on software for the travel expenses. Either they assume that due to the programs set up by them no problems (35 percent). Or take these legal changes as an opportunity to consider the introduction of such software (21 percent). A quarter of the surveyed human resources manager fears however, that they need to upgrade their resources for the travel expense due to the now more complicated legal conditions.