Austerity Package Brings Burden of € 900m for Companies

Politics ♦ Published: February 14, 2012; 20:00 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Austrian austerity package causes costs of € 900m for the Austrian real economy until 2016. Especially non-wage labor costs rise.

Austerity Package Brings Burden of € 900m for Companies / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Last week, the Austrian government explained its € 27.5bn austerity package. For Austrian companies, the direct burden is relatively small, compared with the overall volume. The share of the burden for companies thus reaches 3.0%. However, additional cuts such as amendments in the group taxation, a financial transaction tax or a solidarity tax for top-earners are not…