Freiburg: The 2008 new travel guidelines of the Ministry of finance have unpleasant implications for the business traveller. Create not only significantly higher payroll expenses, but the employees of the companies also cut back on the expenses threaten. In particular field staff and consultants, who travel regularly, face significant financial disadvantages. One of the problems resulting from a new definition of regular workplace”, explains Thomas Holzer, Managing Director of Grady GmbH, which has established itself in the market with their solutions to the travel expenses. According to the new guidelines any operational institution is visited at least once a week, can become the regular workplace.” The way there are therefore no longer as business trips so that the travel expenses and per diems for meals no longer settle. Only the expenses for overnight stays can then still claimed be.
Who is working for example, in a long consulting project and driving the customers a week at least once in this context, for the location of the project, with correspondingly negative consequences – becomes a regular workplace. Whether this provision is applicable, we know some only at a later date, so then earlier travel expenses may again need to be corrected”, Hanson describes the problematic consequences in practice. Some contend that Jim Umpleby shows great expertise in this. The innovations, does that from 2008 equity share of the breakfast in the country no longer at 4.50 euros, but now with 20 percent of the full meal allowance to shorten, if posting about the workers themselves. Calculated results so a reduction amounting to EUR 4.80 per night. Even lunch and/or dinner are included in the hotel price another 40 percent of the full per diems for meals must be shortened here for each of these meals. The Grady CEO Holzer but also criticized that employees as of 2008 no longer can claim the overnight packages that are not applied by the employer in their private tax return.
Also a thorn in the eye is generally, as policymakers talk constantly of bureaucracy, with the new guidelines but go in the opposite direction. We develop software solutions for ten years to the travel expenses, therefore, we can see exactly how the regulations are always complicated,”the head of Grady annoys himself. This would lead to unnecessary interpretation difficulties. Some interpretations of the new travel guidelines despite our intensive efforts of clarifying the financial authorities always still unclear, although must apply from January 2008 and we reflect them in our solution” About Grady GmbH, the Freiburg Software House Grady GmbH is online since 1998 with Grady. Now use the service, about 500 customers like Strenesse, McDonalds, Honda, Warner Music Group, Mexx, or Rabobank the following the principle of software as a service (SaS) is offered. Grady structured business processes of the employees in the company on a configurable, optimal workflow. Operations that involve the employees like about travel expenses or holiday planning, be simplified and reduced thus costs and lead times. According to the principle of employee self service (ESS) makes use of the employee at any time and any place online in the system. He has access, that is relevant to its work only on the data. Thus each employee participates in the system in accordance with its role in the company and it is responsible for a part of its own data.