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This information is intended to assist you in the case of  internet shopping and doing postal sendings around the world.

  • Internet Shopping

    The internet offers consumers an unprecedented variety of goods and the possibility of comparison. Online shopping is also on the upswing in Austria, and more and more goods are being ordered by consumers directly abroad via the internet.

  • Postal traffic

    Postal traffic means the transportation of goods by any of the postal administrations of the European Community; in Austria this is Österreichische Post AG. If goods are imported via postal traffic from third countries or exported via postal traffic out of the European Community, respectively, there are special regulations for customs clearance.

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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
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