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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
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