Austrian Wage Tax Intake Grows

BusinessEconomy ♦ Published: January 11, 2012; 15:45 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Austrian wage tax volume totaled 21.6bn in 2010. Gross wages were up by 2.5%.

Austrian Wage Tax Intake Grows / Picture: © Vindobona.org

According to the wage tax statistics, 6,33 million wage tax-payers were recorded in 2010. This is a rise of 1.4% against 2009. Besides 2,27 million retirees, 4.06 million employees were registered.

Gross wages increased by 2.5% and reached thus € 155.2bn. As a result, wage tax intake could be enhanced as well. This figure rose by 3.9% to € 21.6bn in 2010. 44.8% of the…