Do you have a Stromer as a company car that you occasionally charge at home? Then your employer can reimburse you for the charging costs Photo: picture alliance/dpa
From BZ/dpa
If you have agreed with your employer on a company car with an electric motor, you may be doing something good for the environment – and your own wallet at the same time.
Is your company car an electric or hybrid vehicle? Then you can not only benefit from lower taxation of the non-cash benefit, but also from a tax-free reimbursement of the charging costs – if you charge your vehicle at least occasionally at home. The Bundesverband Lohnsteuerhilfevereine (BVL) points this out.
To make billing easier, employers can pay a flat-rate charging fee with the salary. If the employer does not have a charging facility, they can reimburse an amount of 70 euros per month for purely electric vehicles tax-free. For hybrid electric vehicles it is 35 euros.
If the employer has a charging facility, the amounts are reduced to 30 or 15 euros.
The flat rates only apply to cars, not to e-bikes or pedelecs. However, they also apply if the charging current at home comes from your own photovoltaic system (PV system).
If you have no charging facility at home and therefore have to use public charging stations, your employer can also reimburse you for the fee required for this.