Consolidation Package: Benefits make us competitive, companies resist government taxation.

The government’s consolidation package, containing changes to more than sixty laws, is currently the focus of attention in the Chamber of Deputies. The Government and the Opposition have different views, especially on the issue of taxation of leisure benefits, which are affected by several amendments. It is their tax exemption that is the key point of debate among MPs. The government had earlier proposed abolishing it, which would have raised CZK 1.4 billion. However, this plan has aroused a great wave of discontent, and not only across employers, as documented by the website zachranmebenefity.cz.