I just discovered that people with a bruto wage below €2500 but with a company car and fuel card would still receive the Flemish jobbonus. This is mind blowing to me.
One year ago a courant starting wage for example a master in engineering science working for a consultancy company was about €2400 with company car and fuel card. And all other benefits max. meal vouchers, group insurance, internet compensation, etc.
The same person choosing not to get the company car would have a bruto wage of about €3000 and same benefits. But would of course not get the jobbonus.
All in all for the first person this jobbonus would be a very small amount. But nonetheless. I don’t think these people were the target audience of the measure.
What’s your opinion on this and were you aware of this imo flaw of the jobbonus?
Source: https://www.vlaanderen.be/jobbonus/jobbonus-voor-werknemers-en-ambtenaren#q-b17e715d-fb9d-4f55-b615-ed689b45034a
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does VAA count as gross wage? That should push most of the company car salaries to 2500+
As with any subsidy , it’s made to be used creatively.
Another consequence of this idiotic bonus, which labour economists have declaimed to be inefficient ([example](http://www.andredecoster.be/published-comments/de-jobbonus-nuttig-medicijn-of-overdosis/)), is that colleagues doing the same job with the same wage but living in different regions (as is often the case in and around Brussels) end up getting a different net wage.
Your company car also doesn’t county towards your pension.
Why is the discussion always “*I think person X in situation Y shouldn’t be getting this*” and now “*why aren’t big corporations taxed in such a way that we can all get 10x this stupid little crap we’re fighting online ove*r”?
Tax the fucking rich. Stop squabbling over the leftovers. (that aren’t even leftovers, because you can be sure our fucking taxes will rise a bit because of this, we’re paying our own leftovers)