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Blümel: Employee bonuses tax-exempt, full lump sum for commuters remains
Blümel: Phase II of the hardship fund to be extended
Blümel: Rapid assistance and the greatest possible goodwill are paramount
Blümel: The Commission is lacking problem awareness
Blümel: Wearing masks now compulsory – no VAT on protective masks
Blümel on Austria's 2020 Budget: More money will be provided – No deficit anticipated this year – First EUR 4 bn package of initial emergency aid – Everything necessary will be done
Corona Aids: Blümel demands temporary suspension of EU state aid law
Finance Minister
Blümel: EUR 15 billion corona assistance fund to safeguard jobs and protect Austria as a centre of economic activity
Finance Minister Blümel: Hardship fund doubled to EUR 2 billion
Finance Minister Blümel: “Times of crisis are not a legal void. Hence zero tolerance for misuse of subsidies.”
Finance Minister Gernot Blümel on the agreement of the EU Finance Ministers on an aid package in the Corona crisis
Securing jobs: Funds for short-time work increased to €10 bn
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Blümel on Austria's 2020 Budget: More money will be provided – No deficit anticipated this year – First EUR 4 bn package of initial emergency aid – Everything necessary will be done
Blümel: The Commission is lacking problem awareness
Blümel: Phase II of the hardship fund to be extended
Blümel: Rapid assistance and the greatest possible goodwill are paramount
Corona Aids: Blümel demands temporary suspension of EU state aid law
Finance Minister Blümel: “Times of crisis are not a legal void. Hence zero tolerance for misuse of subsidies.”
Finance Minister Gernot Blümel on the agreement of the EU Finance Ministers on an aid package in the Corona crisis
Blümel: Wearing masks now compulsory – no VAT on protective masks
Blümel: Employee bonuses tax-exempt, full lump sum for commuters remains
Finance Minister
Blümel: EUR 15 billion corona assistance fund to safeguard jobs and protect Austria as a centre of economic activity
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January 2020
Gernot Blümel is Austria's new Finance Minister
Budget surplus significantly higher than expected
Finance Minister Blümel attends first ECOFIN and Eurogroup meetings
Biggest seizure of counterfeit luxury watches in Austria, with an equivalent original value totalling EUR 15 million
Finance Minister Blümel urges tightening of eurozone Stability and Growth Pact
Finance Minister Blümel: 2021 to see reduction in base rate of income tax deducted at source
February 2020
Finance Minister Gernot Blümel meets US State Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross
Customs: 80 % increase in drug confiscations
Finance Minister Blümel at ECOFIN and Eurogroup meeting in Brussels
Blümel and Aschbacher to join forces against social fraud on the labour market
March 2020
Corona - Blümel: “Good talks with representatives of the banking sector and the
OeNB
”
Blümel: “Will help quickly and directly”
Blümel: "Supply of cash in Austria is assured"
Finance Minister Gernot Blümel: “A balanced budget is important, but health and jobs in Austria are more important!”
Blümel on Austria's 2020 Budget: More money will be provided
Blümel: We will do whatever is necessary to help
Budget statement: We will do whatever is necessary
Extension of deadline for submitting the tax return
Blümel on hardship fund – to give quickly is to give double
April 2020
Finance Minister Blümel: Hardship fund doubled to EUR 2 billion
Finance Minister
Blümel: EUR 15 billion corona assistance fund to safeguard jobs and protect Austria as a centre of economic activity
Blümel: Employee bonuses tax-exempt, full lump sum for commuters remains
Blümel: Wearing masks now compulsory – no VAT on protective masks
Finance Minister Gernot Blümel on the agreement of the EU Finance Ministers on an aid package in the Corona crisis
Finance Minister Blümel: “Times of crisis are not a legal void. Hence zero tolerance for misuse of subsidies.”
Corona Aids: Blümel demands temporary suspension of EU state aid law
Blümel: Rapid assistance and the greatest possible goodwill are paramount
Blümel: Phase II of the hardship fund to be extended
Blümel: The Commission is lacking problem awareness
Securing jobs: Funds for short-time work increased to €10 bn
Blümel on Austria's 2020 Budget: More money will be provided – No deficit anticipated this year – First EUR 4 bn package of initial emergency aid – Everything necessary will be done
Mai 2020
EU Commission gives green light for fixed cost subsidy
Blümel: 4.6 billion euros of tax have been deferred - three out of four of applicants are small businesses.
Blümel Comments on Budget 2020: Volatile Figures
Money for business: Fixed cost subsidies will be available this year
Blümel: zero tolerance for subsidy fraud amounts to careful handling of tax money.
Federal government presents €500 million package for restaurants and pubs.
Corona aid: fixed costs subsidy, packages for pubs & restaurants and clubs & associations
Tax office: appointments possible from 18 May
Short-time working: funds increased to €12 billion
Fixed costs subsidy: Start of the largest subsidy in the history of the Second Republic
Finance Minister Blümel: €300 million for public transport
Federal Government’s €1 billion municipal package
Film Industry Summit: €25 million package for Austrian film
Hardship funds: six payments instead of three, up to €3,000 comeback bonus
€1,000 per month for freelance artists
June 2020
Ministerial Council launches economic stimulus act
Checks on short-time working by the Financial Police: showing as much goodwill as possible, but with as much enforcement as is necessary
Economic Stimulus Act: easing the burden, enabling investment
Government consultation: €50 billion for rescue, relief and investments
Gastronomy and culture sector: VAT reduced to 5%
Investments for a strong comeback of Vienna’s economy
Austrian Airlines: Austria package to secure Vienna as an operating centre and air transport hub and Austrian Airlines as a brand
Finance Minister Blümel: deferral of loan repayments for private individuals and micro-enterprises extended by four months
July 2020
Austria assumes chair of EUROFISC
Blümel: Targeted controls to combat understated invoices will create fairness for domestic retailers
August 2020
Blümel: Applications open for second tranche of fixed cost grant
German-speaking Finance Ministers meet in Vienna
Blümel: Austria one of top three countries in terms of economic reconstruction
September 2020
Blümel: "Getting Austria fit for the financial future"
Blümel outraged at comments by Commission representative Selmayr
Finance Minister Gernot Blümel receives Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe
Blümel: Fraudulent fruit-growers are harming Austria as a location, as well as buyers and consumers, to the tune of around EUR 10 million!
Blümel: "Federal Finance Ministry's Coronavirus Hotline guarantees swift and unbureaucratic assistance
October 2020
Blümel/Schramböck/Köstinger: EUR 25 million for Schönbrunn Zoo
Customs seizes 500,000 pieces of fake "Marlboro”
Blümel on the 2021 budget: Getting through the crisis together
Over 5,000 controls undertaken by Financial Police in the fight against social security fraud
Finance Ministry/customs: Biggest drug seizure in years – 140 kg cannabis found in "empty" articulated truck.
Customs officers discover false floor
Blümel: Turnover compensation to provide unbureaucratic assistance to affected sectors
Protecting jobs: More money for short-time work, bridging finance secured
November 2020
Blümel presents turnover compensation – what we need now is unbureaucratic assistance for affected companies
Blümel: Providing rapid assistance to all businesses affected by lockdown
Blümel: Proposed initiative for legislative winter package extends existing support
Blümel: Applications open today for extension to turnover compensation and fixed cost subsidy phase II
Suspected money laundering – customs officers confiscate over
DKK
2.5 million
December 2020
Blümel extends turnover compensation: businesses subject to closure will receive 50%
Police and customs seize cannabis valued at EUR 1.3 million
Blümel/Köstinger: Seamless system of relief instruments to be available by tomorrow
Customs: Raid on illegal cigarette factory in Vienna
Brexit: Finance Ministry boosting information resources and customs capacity
Press Releases 2021
March 2021
Blümel: Turnover loss bonus increased for March
Finance Ministry/Customs: Over 1 tonne of drugs withdrawn from circulation in 2020
Blümel: Austria's membership of EFRAG strengthens our interests at international level
Raab/Blümel: "Through FABIAN, we are making family allowance as straightforward as possible"
Customs and police again rescue 9 trafficked puppies
Finance Minister Blümel presents 2020 Product Piracy Report
Blümel: EUR 1.3 billion already paid out to municipalities
Tax refunds running into millions obtained by fraud – leading to 5-year jail sentence
Blümel: Planning phase begins for 'Graz Center of Physics'– Federal government investing EUR 354 million
April 2021
IMF figures show Austria ranks second in the EU in terms of support provided as part of the country's COVID-19 response
ECOAustria Study: Austria ranks top in Europe for COVID-19 support
Ministry of Finance/Customs: £46,000 carried across half Europe hidden under a mattress in a van
261 kg cannabis resin worth EUR 2.5 m seized by Customs in Kufstein
Looking back on a successful year for the Finance Ministry's Coronavirus Hotline – 361 000 queries resolved
Blümel: Successful meeting with Daniel Risch, Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Liechtenstein
May 2021
Austria's plan for the EU Recovery Fund