Mobility budget

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Mobility budget is an offer for employees of companies that enables them to cover business and / or private trips by means of transport without a personal company car and with alternative means of transport. Instead of providing a specific car , the employer stores a corresponding volume for the employee (e.g. in monetary units , in kilograms of CO 2 or in kilometers traveled).

background

In general, companies provide company cars for the travel needs of certain employees, which can usually also be used privately and are subject to corresponding statutory taxation regulations. Alternatively, individual means of transport can be booked depending on the reason for the trip, such as B. Rental cars , air or train connections. The company often bears the costs incurred. However, the means of transport are then only available for the purpose of the trip initiated by the company and generally not in addition to private use.

Buyers for travel services (so-called travel managers or mobility managers ) are increasingly ordering services that reduce the full costs by linking several mobility offers and minimize the administrative effort involved in accessing services. The mobility budget represents an additional method of optimizing travel by employees regardless of the chosen means of transport. This can include different services depending on the company.

Possible benefits

The mobility budget bundles individual mobility services in an individual package, the scope and budget of which can be determined according to the travel authorization level of the company or individual employee.

With the aim of offering an alternative to the conventional personal company car, a central service module is usually defined, which can be supplemented with additional packages. This can be the BahnCard 100 , for example . As a mobility card from Deutsche Bahn AG , it is already available for business and private use of long-distance and regional transport offers as well as long-distance buses of Deutsche Bahn in Germany. In many German cities, it also enables the use of local transport to get to and from the airport. In order to enable the private use of the BahnCard 100 obtained through the employer, the employee has to transfer the monetary benefit in accordance with tax regulations.

So-called follow-up mobility services, such as car sharing , rental cars and chauffeur services or bike rental systems, can be considered as additional components . This is to ensure the "door-to-door mobility" of the traveling employee when traveling for business or private purposes.

Depending on the provider, mobility budgets can also be used to freely choose any means of transport (public transport, rail, connecting mobility such as car-bike or scooter sharing, taxi, rental car, etc.). The user can freely choose mobility within his budget, submit the expenses and get reimbursed through the employer. In Germany there are also tax-deductible regulations for, for example, the use of local and long-distance passenger transport.

The service provider of the mobility budget guarantees access to the ordered mobility modules (e.g. via internet portal or mobile application ) and answers specific questions from users and travel managers . In addition, the user-based billing of budget consumption with the company is ensured in compliance with data protection and tax law, thus separating business and private use.

distribution

According to a market study from Switzerland in 2013 of 105 companies surveyed, five percent offered their employees a freely available mobility budget.

Practical examples

  • The German Bahn AG around 3000 provides executives with the mobility budget since 2013 as an alternative to personal company car, since not every employee authorized also requires a company car, but should still be flexible mobile. The alternative is the BahnCard 100, up to two copies of which can be issued to the manager's household. Complemented by the Flinkster car sharing offer and the Call a Bike bike rental system , for which separate budgets are set up, broad coverage of mobility needs is guaranteed.
  • The consulting company AT Kearney offers its employees either a BahnCard 100 or a mobility budget as an alternative to the company car. The mobility budget can be used for rental cars from Sixt , the myDriver chauffeur service and DriveNow car sharing .
  • The pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo offers its employees a mobility card as a payment medium with a variable budget up to a maximum of 10,000 euros.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ How intelligent mobility works , greentravel, November 19, 2014.
  2. ↑ What is a mobility budget? , EPOMM Newsletter, March 2012.
  3. ↑ § 3 EStG - single standard. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Balz Eggenberger: Car Policy Study 2013 (PDF) , leetcompetence europe GmbH, November 13, 2013.
  5. ↑ DB Mobility Logistics AG: “Mobility budget” as an alternative to the company car. Press release, November 20, 2015. ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutschebahn.com
  6. ^ DB Vertrieb GmbH: "Mobility budget - an alternative to a company car?" ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bahn.de
  7. ^ Deutsche Umwelthilfe: Fleet and mobility strategies of selected German companies. Compilation of July 24, 2013 (PDF).
  8. ↑ Alina Steindl and Wolfgang Inninger: CarSharing and mobility budget instead of company car ?, in: Internationales Verkehrwesen. Vol. 68, Issue 4, 2016, p. 55.
  9. ↑ Mireille Pruvost: Here today, there tomorrow, in: Autoflotte , Issue 4, 2018, online at autoflotte.de .
  10. ↑ Oliver Graue: How Daiichi Sankyo plans business trips, in: BizTravel , article from February 10, 2016, online at biztravel.fvw.de .

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