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Federal Budget 2023

The "Budget at a glance" provides an overview of aggregated key data on the Austrian Federal Budget for the year 2023. The Budget Act for 2023 passed the National Chamber of Parliament on 17 November 2022 and was published on 6 Dezember 2022 under number I 183/2022 on the Official Federal Gazette.

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      • Press Releases 2020
        • January 2020
          • Finance Minister Blümel: 2021 to see reduction in base rate of income tax deducted at source
          • 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
          • Budget surplus significantly higher than expected
          • Finance Minister Blümel attends first ECOFIN and Eurogroup meetings
          • Gernot Blümel is Austria's new Finance Minister
        • February 2020
          • Finance Minister Blümel at ECOFIN and Eurogroup meeting in Brussels
          • Customs: 80 % increase in drug confiscations
          • Finance Minister Gernot Blümel meets US State Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross
        • March 2020
          • Blümel on Austria's 2020 Budget: More money will be provided
          • Blümel on hardship fund – to give quickly is to give double
          • Blümel: "Supply of cash in Austria is assured"
          • Blümel: We will do whatever is necessary to help
          • Blümel: “Will help quickly and directly”
          • Budget statement: We will do whatever is necessary
          • Corona - Blümel: “Good talks with representatives of the banking sector and the OeNB”
          • Extension of deadline for submitting the tax return
          • Finance Minister Gernot Blümel: “A balanced budget is important, but health and jobs in Austria are more important!”
        • April 2020
          • 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 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: 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
          • Corona Aids: Blümel demands temporary suspension of EU state aid law
          • 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
        • Mai 2020
          • €1,000 per month for freelance artists
          • 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
          • Blümel: zero tolerance for subsidy fraud amounts to careful handling of tax money.
          • Corona aid: fixed costs subsidy, packages for pubs & restaurants and clubs & associations
          • EU Commission gives green light for fixed cost subsidy
          • Federal government presents €500 million package for restaurants and pubs.
          • Federal Government’s €1 billion municipal package
          • Film Industry Summit: €25 million package for Austrian film
          • Finance Minister Blümel: €300 million for public transport
          • Fixed costs subsidy: Start of the largest subsidy in the history of the Second Republic
          • Hardship funds: six payments instead of three, up to €3,000 comeback bonus
          • Money for business: Fixed cost subsidies will be available this year
          • Short-time working: funds increased to €12 billion
          • Tax office: appointments possible from 18 May
        • June 2020
          • Government consultation: €50 billion for rescue, relief and investments
          • Austrian Airlines: Austria package to secure Vienna as an operating centre and air transport hub and Austrian Airlines as a brand
          • 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
          • Finance Minister Blümel: deferral of loan repayments for private individuals and micro-enterprises extended by four months
          • Gastronomy and culture sector: VAT reduced to 5%
          • Investments for a strong comeback of Vienna’s economy
          • Ministerial Council launches economic stimulus act
        • 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
          • Blümel: Austria one of top three countries in terms of economic reconstruction
          • German-speaking Finance Ministers meet in Vienna
        • September 2020
          • Blümel: "Getting Austria fit for the financial future"
          • Blümel: "Federal Finance Ministry's Coronavirus Hotline guarantees swift and unbureaucratic assistance
          • 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 outraged at comments by Commission representative Selmayr
          • Finance Minister Gernot Blümel receives Eurogroup President Paschal Donohoe
        • October 2020
          • Blümel on the 2021 budget: Getting through the crisis together
          • Blümel/Schramböck/Köstinger: EUR 25 million for Schönbrunn Zoo
          • Blümel: Turnover compensation to provide unbureaucratic assistance to affected sectors
          • Customs seizes 500,000 pieces of fake "Marlboro”
          • Finance Ministry/customs: Biggest drug seizure in years – 140 kg cannabis found in "empty" articulated truck. Customs officers discover false floor
          • Over 5,000 controls undertaken by Financial Police in the fight against social security fraud
          • Protecting jobs: More money for short-time work, bridging finance secured
        • December 2020
          • Blümel/Köstinger: Seamless system of relief instruments to be available by tomorrow
          • Blümel extends turnover compensation: businesses subject to closure will receive 50%
          • Brexit: Finance Ministry boosting information resources and customs capacity
          • Customs: Raid on illegal cigarette factory in Vienna
          • Police and customs seize cannabis valued at EUR 1.3 million
        • November 2020
          • Blümel: Applications open today for extension to turnover compensation and fixed cost subsidy phase II
          • Blümel presents turnover compensation – what we need now is unbureaucratic assistance for affected companies
          • Blümel: Proposed initiative for legislative winter package extends existing support
          • Blümel: Providing rapid assistance to all businesses affected by lockdown
          • Suspected money laundering – customs officers confiscate over DKK 2.5 million
      • Press Releases 2021
        • January 2021
          • Blümel: 2021 to bring biggest reform in the Tax Administration--better service for individuals and businesses
          • Blümel: 'Turnover loss bonus' - up to 30% of turnover, capped at EUR 60,000 per month
          • Customs officers stop animal traffickers: 74 endangered chameleons found in suitcase with black market value at around EUR 37,000
          • EU expands State Aid Framework
          • Financial Police conduct investigations at Amazon partners
          • Financial Police take stock of a successful year in 2020
          • Linz customs officers uncover illegal cigarette production in Lower Austrian district of Bruck an der Leitha
        • March 2021
          • Blümel: Austria's membership of EFRAG strengthens our interests at international level
          • Blümel: EUR 1.3 billion already paid out to municipalities
          • Blümel: Planning phase begins for 'Graz Center of Physics'– Federal government investing EUR 354 million
          • Blümel: Turnover loss bonus increased for March
          • Customs and police again rescue 9 trafficked puppies
          • Finance Minister Blümel presents 2020 Product Piracy Report
          • Finance Ministry/Customs: Over 1 tonne of drugs withdrawn from circulation in 2020
          • Raab/Blümel: "Through FABIAN, we are making family allowance as straightforward as possible"
          • Tax refunds running into millions obtained by fraud – leading to 5-year jail sentence
        • April 2021
          • 261 kg cannabis resin worth EUR 2.5 m seized by Customs in Kufstein
          • Blümel: Successful meeting with Daniel Risch, Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Liechtenstein
          • ECOAustria Study: Austria ranks top in Europe for COVID-19 support
          • IMF figures show Austria ranks second in the EU in terms of support provided as part of the country's COVID-19 response
          • Looking back on a successful year for the Finance Ministry's Coronavirus Hotline – 361 000 queries resolved
          • Ministry of Finance/Customs: £46,000 carried across half Europe hidden under a mattress in a van
        • May 2021
          • Austria's plan for the EU Recovery Fund
          • Blümel: "No let-up in the dedication of our customs officers even during the pandemic!"
          • Finance Ministry/Customs: High numbers of live animals trafficked in Q1 2021
          • Fitch keeps Austria's AA+ credit rating and ensures stable outlook
          • Notional interest on equity - the key to greater crisis resilience
          • New BMF app - a European showcase project: one step ahead of the cigarette smugglers
          • New President of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council, Christoph Badelt, pays inaugural visit to Finance Minister Gernot Blümel
          • Vienna Airport: Customs check on passenger carrying EUR 97 510 in cash confiscated to pay outstanding tax debt
        • June 2021
          • Blümel and Kocher present control plan
          • Blümel: "Customs investigation into international cigarette mafia reaches final conclusion" – Illegal production machine destroyed
          • Blümel: Explosion in numbers of dummy companies in Vienna
          • Blümel: Helping businesses repay deferred taxes
          • Blümel: “Heavy blow dealt to illegal gambling”
          • Blümel: “The tenacity of the Financial Police is paying off. We will not back down even if a global minimum tax rate is implemented.”
          • Customs officials catch smuggler in the green channel
          • EU customs regulations: 22-euro exemption threshold scrapped from the beginning of July
          • Financial help for badly affected businesses extended
          • Potentially record-breaking illicit earnings stash uncovered by Tax Fraud Investigation Unit: more than 3.5 m euros had been hoarded
          • Stopped by Customs: jeweller wanted to bring 4.5 kilos of gold jewellery into the country illegally
        • July 2021
          • Blümel: Corona help for the economy is working: 90 per cent of businesses do not need the special Covid-19 instalment payment facility
          • Blümel: Seeking to ensure tax transparency and to combat the transfer of profits
          • Minister Blümel welcomes agreement on global tax reform
        • August 2021
          • Applications open for two categories of coronavirus assistance
          • Austria to issue Green Bonds for the first time in 2022
          • Blümel: "We will return to a sound fiscal policy"
          • Blümel: Austrian economy and Austrian businesses in a positive mood - instalment payment model proving its worth
          • Blümel: Austrian economy is picking up speed, now ranks second in the EU
          • Blümel: Economic recovery is setting government budget on a positive course
          • Blümel: In 2020, Tax Fraud Investigation Unit recovered EUR 172 million in the fight against fraud
          • Blümel/Schwarz: New Productivity Council to be established in Austria
          • Blümel offers his congratulations to the new Chair of the ÖBAG, Edith Hlawati
          • Finance Ministry/Customs: Passenger attempts to export EUR 46 000 for Cairo apartment purchase
          • In a week of targeted action, Finance Ministry and Interior Ministry intercept 180 welfare offenders at border controls
          • Ministry of Finance/Customs: 12 years of the Trade in Species Act – 818 seizures of endangered species at Vienna Airport
          • Smoked out: airport customs force seizes 7.6 tonnes of counterfeit shisha tobacco
        • September 2021
          • Blümel: 5 million to help the recovery in Eastern Europe
          • Blümel: Continuing positive trend - economy now bigger than pre-crisis level
          • Blümel: Positive trends in the employment market, tax income and the budget
          • Blümel presents national financial education strategy: 'My money, my life, my decision – I'm sure'
          • Customs officers conduct 173 000 successful operations and controls in first half of 2021
          • EU recovery fund: Austria receives EUR 450 million pre-financing from EU
          • 'Coalition of responsibility' backing Stability and Growth Pact
        • October 2021
          • Blümel: 2022 Budget stands for recovery, stability and sustainability
          • Blümel: “We’re reducing tax for everyone who goes to work and is industrious”
        • November 2021
          • Application deadline extended for fixed cost subsidy 800 000 and loss compensation I
          • Blümel: “We’re reducing tax for everyone who goes to work and is industrious”
          • Blümel: Economic upturn clearly evident in federal budget
          • Blümel presents first sitrep on Tax Authority Austria
          • Blümel: Millionth COFAG application for Corona aid processed
          • Eco-social tax reform creates a framework for the taxation of cryptocurrencies
          • Blümel: Trusted forms of assistance for the domestic economy and jobs
          • Ministry of Finance responds to changed world of work: Tax benefits for home office
          • Blümel: "Reactivation and extension of coronavirus assistance to protect the economy and workers"
        • December 2021
          • Finance Minister Brunner: "We are continuing to help impacted sectors of the economy"
          • The Budget in Charts and Figures
          • Blümel hands over office to Brunner at the Finance Ministry
          • Blümel/Köstinger: Rapid assistance vital to support businesses and workers
          • Finance Minister Magnus Brunner invites top economic researchers to exchange of ideas
      • Press Releases 2022
        • October 2022
          • Finance Forum: The economic development of the EU in turbulent times
          • "Taking responsibility for tomorrow - safe in the future"
        • February 2022
          • Customs officers in Upper Austria seize more than 60 pieces of ivory jewellery and art
          • Finance Minister Magnus Brunner meets UK counterpart Rishi Sunak: green finance, digital tax, COVID recovery and economic support also on the agenda
          • Financial Police raid poppy processing factory: 13 undocumented workers deported
          • Graz woman fined after half a million fermented plums smuggled into Austria
        • March 2022
          • Austrian customs prevents the illegal sale of four rare parrots – red-fronted macaws (Ara rubrogenys) and military macaws (Ara militaris)
          • Brunner: Austria supports Ukraine aid program of the World Bank with 10 million euros
          • Tax justice ensured online too: no fewer than 7.5 million reports filed by online platforms since 1 January 2020
          • Customs: over 300,000 counterfeit products confiscated in 2021
          • Finance Minister Magnus Brunner gives green light for €150 energy costs voucher
          • Brunner: Austria's AA+ rating confirmed: Outlook improved to "positive"
          • The relief package in action – calculate your savings now at bmf.gv.at/entlastungsrechner
        • April 2022
          • Austria, IMF renew agreement on Joint Vienna Institute
          • Finance Minister Brunner: "Customs offices protect the economy and citizens at the gateway to the rest of the world"
          • Finance Minister Magnus Brunner says 150-euro energy costs voucher will now go to 4 million households
        • May 2022
          • Brunner/Tursky: Three goals for taking greater advantage of digitalisation for Austria
          • Finance Minister Brunner elected Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
        • December 2022
          • Brunner: Trieste–Villach customs corridor will make Austria a more attractive place to do business
          • HIPC Initiative: Austria contributes to debt relief for Somalia and Sudan 14.9 million euros pledged
        • June 2022
          • Section head Waiglein re-elected in a key position at EU level
        • November 2022
          • Electricity price brake to start on 1 December 2022
          • Finance Minister Magnus Brunner focuses on financial education
        • September 2022
          • Brunner/Tursky: ID Austria wins gold at the international eGovernment competition
          • Government decides to abolish cold progression (bracket creep)
          • Notable customs seizures in the first half of 2022: Among these ivory, parrots and luxury watches
      • 2023
        • January 2023
          • Customs carried out 330,000 checks in 2022.
          • Great search success for the Customs Authority Austria: Smuggled tobacco products, narcotic drugs, sexual enhancers and prohibited weapons seized during a house search in Hernals, Vienna
          • Relief calculator for 2023 is online
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