After the first year, especially the issue of Migration has been edited, you want to put Austria’s government is now a different emphasis. The most space is given to the tax reform takes on, among other things, is planned to be a digital tax for Internet companies. the By Peter Münch, Vienna Peter Münch
After graduating from high school in Düsseldorf, a study of history in Bonn, and a PhD in Munich came Peter Münch 1990 as an editor for the süddeutsche Zeitung. Of the County expenditure, he made his way through the news Department in the foreign policy. As a Reporter, he was for the SZ, especially in the Balkans, in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. For four years he headed the Department of page Three, before he became middle East correspondent to Tel Aviv. Since the summer of 2017, he reported from Vienna through Austria, Hungary and the Balkans.
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As always, are the protagonists of the Austrian government coalition in a very well-fitting suits before the press came after their two-day Cabinet retreat in Mauerbach, near Vienna. But actually could fit to this occurs a couple of rolled up Sleeves. Because the message of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) and Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache (FPÖ) at the start of the second year is: It’s going to work.
was cannibalized After the first year as the aftermath of the election campaign, the issue of Migration, back now to the substantive issues in the foreground. Three core projects of the Registrar for 2019: tax reform, the digitisation, as well as called a so-called care-Offensive.
The most space is given to the tax reform takes, the extent of the Short is “six billion euros” estimated. Unlike previous reforms, this is already the fourth since 2004 – he promised a “genuine and honest discharge”, because there are going to be for the financing of neither the new debt nor taxes in other areas.
An exception is, however, the planned new digital tax will not apply, however, to the citizens, but corporations like Google or Facebook. Their Online advertising revenues should be taxed at the rate of three percent. After under Vienna presidency of the Council, no EU agreement was reached, Austria, France, first on a national solution.
The tax will not be easy to come to conclusions, however, the same in full, but in three stages up to 2022 stretched. There are budgetary reasons: The budget is to be stably in the black. On the other, the political calculus is based on the will certainly, keep the good deeds up to the next General election. To begin with, the focus on the low-paid who are relieved from 2020 in the case of social security contributions and payroll taxes. There is a core clientele of the FPÖ, and the host business-oriented applicable government benefits uses the Chance to counter the social-democratic Opposition’s allegation of “social coldness”. A year later, the tax rate groups should be reduced and finally, the company is relieved with a lower corporate income tax.
is that The financing of the facilities is still unclear. Vague plans in the area of digitisation, where the target output, to bring Austria, among other things, by the Expansion of the infrastructure in Europe “to the top”, but still. In the case of care, the focus should be on better care at home. If this is to be financed, as in Germany, care insurance is examined in the context of a “caring Dialogue”. Strache spoke of a “start” in all three areas. After the exam, the government must now go to the detail work. Only the Vice-Chancellor went home. After the birth of his son on new year’s day he pulled in a “daddy-month”.
