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In this case, funds for the stay are proven specifically on the basis of special provisions of the Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals, that being by submitting a document on the aggregate monthly income of the foreign national and the persons appraised with him/her residing in the Czech Republic.

The amount of the aggregate monthly income of the foreign national and the persons appraised with him/her (the aggregate income of the family after unification, if it concerns long-term residence for the purpose of family unification), may not be lower than the sum of the amounts for the existential minimum for the foreign national and the persons appraised with him/her (family members) and the corresponding amount of the normative costs for housing.

Income is deemed such income that is in accordance with the Act on Living and Subsistence Minimum, with the exception of a one-off salary, child benefits, unemployment benefits, requalification benefits and benefits within the system of assistance in material need. Section 8 Clause 2 and 4 of the Act on Living and Subsistence Minimum shall not be used for the purpose of counting salary.

For these purposes, it is necessary to prove the aggregate monthly income of a foreign national who also meets the requirements of a regular and continuous income. Thus, the submission of a single account statement on the account’s balance cannot be considered proof of such an income.

For the purposes of an application for permanent residence, it is necessary to submit documents on the incomes of the foreign national and all of the persons appraised with him/her, if they have an income.  Document on the income of other family members is not required in case the applicant´s income fully covers the amount required by the Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals.

Jointly assessed persons are:

• parents and minor dependent children,

• spouses or partners; a partner is also understood to be a partner, with whom a citizen of an EU Member State has entered into a registered partnership on the basis of the legal regulations of another EU Member State, if these legal regulations govern the mutual maintenance obligations between the partners,

• parents and

  • minor children that are not dependent,

  • adult children, if these children live together with their parents in a flat; this does not apply in a case when these adult children are jointly appraised with a spouse or partner or with a person with whom they live in the flat (if they do not declare in writing that they do not live together permanently and do not cover the costs for their needs jointly),

• other persons that live together in a flat, with the exception of persons that prove, that they do not live together permanently and do not cover the costs for their needs jointly.
   

If the applicant is a parent of a minor dependent child, who has been entrusted to the custody of the other parent by a decision of a relevant authority, this child is not appraised with the applicant.

If the applicant is a child that lives in a joint household with just one parent, the other parent is not a jointly appraised person. For the purposes of the application, alimentary payments paid to the child by the other parent, who does not live with the child in a joint household, are counted as the child’s income.

The amount of the subsistence minimum

A foreign national who is not appraised jointly with other persons.

In accordance with the Government Regulation No. 436/2022 Coll., as of January 1^st, 2023 the following amount of the subsistence minimum for and individual is equal to 4 860 CZK a month.
 

A foreign national who is appraised jointly with other persons.

In this case, the amounts of the existential minimum are stepped according to the order of the persons. The order of the persons appraised is determined so that persons who are not dependent children are appraised first followed by dependent children. Within each of these groups of appraised persons, the order is determined by age from the oldest to the youngest person. The decisive age of a person for determining the amount of the existential minimum is the age of the person in the calendar month during which the existential minimum is ascertained.

• The amount of the subsistence minimum of a person who is determined to be first in order is CZK 4 470 a month.

• The monthly amount of the subsistence minimum of a person who is determined to be second in order is

  • CZK 4 040 for a person over 15 years, who is not a dependent child,

  • CZK 3 490 for a dependent child from 15 to 26 years,

  • CZK 3 050 for a dependent child from 6 to 15 years,

  • CZK 2 480 for a dependent child under 6 years.

Costs for housing

In accordance with the Act No. 450/2022 Coll., the highest amount of normative costs for housing since January 1^st, 2023 is:

• CZK 18 129 for one person and/or two people in a family,

• CZK 20 812 for three people in a family,

• CZK 24 995 for four and more people in a family.
   

If the foreign national credibly proves that for his/her housing and, if needs be, that of the persons jointly appraised (family members) he/she invests a different amount than that determined as the amount of normative costs for housing, the necessary monthly income is calculated by adding the amounts of the existential minimums (see above) and the actually proven housing costs.

Housing costs are formed from the rent or another amount paid for the provision of housing and further the costs for gas, electricity, water, waste water and central heating or for solid fuel, if these costs are not included in the rent for the flat or another room intended for housing or, if needs be into the amount paid for accommodation.

Form of documents proving a foreign national’s income (or the persons appraised with him/her)

• If it concerns income from employment - an employer`s confirmation of a specific amount as the average net monthly salary for the previous quarter, which must amount to a specified sum, and an original or notarised copy of a valid work contract (or an employer`s confirmation of the fact that the employee is not in the notice period and that he continues being employed). Submission of a work contract for a “postee employee“ can be substituted by submitting an assignment letter of the “parent“ employer, to whom he/she was posted. The employer’s confirmation of the specific amount of the average net monthly wage can also be substituted by wage slips for the pertinent period, if, however, they have value as evidence and are meaningful.

• If it concerns income from business (e.g. from a trade, shares in profits of p.l.c. partners or general partners of a special partnership) - a payment assessment of income tax set by the tax administrator for the last tax period (ex officio or upon request by the tax subject) in accord with § 140/1 and /3 of Act No. 280/2009 Coll., the Tax Code. It is further necessary, for the purposes of determining the net income of the given person, to submit a document from the district social security administration on the amount paid to social security insurance and the state employment policy for the pertinent tax period, and further, if it concerns a document on a person that is a subscriber to public health insurance (e.g. a foreign national with permanent residence as a jointly appraised person, family member), it is also necessary to submit a document on the amount paid to the General Health Insurer.

• If it concerns a person who has income from the profits of a commercial company (a partner in a p.l.c., a shareholder in a joint stock company, a general partner in a special partnership) or cooperative, of which he/she is a partner (income from capital assets) - an extract from the general meeting of the commercial company or the membership meeting of a cooperative, from which the division of profits between partners is clear, and a document on paying tax on the basis of a special tax rate pursuant to § 36/2 of the Act on Income Tax (pdf, 462 kB).

• If it concerns a person who is a statutory body or member of a statutory body of a legal entity (e.g. an executive of a p.l.c., a board member or chair of a cooperative, etc.) or of a different body of a legal entity and he/she has income solely from this position (income from employment and benefits) - a confirmation from the pertinent legal entity on the amount of the average net monthly wage and a document from which the right to a bonus and its amount or the manner of remuneration is clear. In case of commercial corporations such document may be in particular an agreement on the performance of a function pursuant to § 59 and 60 of the Act on Commercial Corporations. However such agreements concluded before 1.1.2014 should have been adapted to the  Act on Commercial Corporations till 1.7.2014 otherwise  the performance of a function is non- remunerated.  In  case the agreement on the performance of a function was  not concluded it is possible to provide an extract from the general meeting of the company or the membership meeting (or, for instance, the decision of a sole partner of a p.l.c. replacing the extract from the general meeting), or an internal company rule from which the setting of bonuses for the pertinent member of the statutory body or other body of a legal entity is clear).

• If it concerns a person who, as a member of a cooperative, a partner or an executive of a p.l.c. or general partner of a special partnership, carries out work for the company and receives an income from this (income from employment and benefits) - a confirmation from the pertinent legal entity on the amount of the average net monthly wage and a document from which the right to a bonus and its amount or the manner of remuneration is clear (e.g. a work contract, if it concerns a labour relation with the company or cooperative).

• Confirmation on the transferral of benefits paid by the state of which the foreign national is a citizen or another state, which pays him/her such benefits.
   

The statement about release of duty of confidentiality of Tax Office

Upon request on Administrative Authority a foreigner is on request obliged to submit the declaration of release obligation of secrecy of the Tax Office, in full range of data, in purpose of verification aggregate monthly income of the family; if a foreigner submitted the document to the request of income of the family member, he/she is on request also obliged to submit its declaration of release obligation of secrecy.