The tax burden in Austria is comparatively high, and the gap vis-à-vis the EU average has widened. The tax structure exhibits a number of specific features: taxes on labour are high, both from the employee's and the employer's side, following an upward trend and markedly exceeding the...

In the negotiations on the EU?s budget for 2014 to 2020 member countries almost exclusively focused on individual direct benefits in terms of net financial positions. Indirect benefits from EU membership, EU enlargement and introduction of the euro as well as benefits from EU expenditures other...

Auch in Österreich wurden zur Bewältigung des Konsolidierungsbedarfs im Gefolge der aktuellen Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise neben Ausgabensenkungen u. a. vermögensbezogene Steuern erhöht. Die Debatte um die (künftige) Bedeutung von vermögensbezogenen Steuern, die auch außerhalb...

Der Bundesvoranschlag 2013 muss Konsolidierungserfordernisse und den anhaltenden Finanzierungsbedarf in wichtigen Zukunftsbereichen in Einklang bringen. Die Schuldenquote erreicht 2013 mit voraussichtlich 75,4% des BIP ihren Höchstwert und soll anschließend bis 2016 auf knapp 71% gesenkt...

Led by a dynamic export growth real GDP in Austria grew by 2 percent in 2010. Between 2011 until 2015 the Austrian economy is expected to grow by 2.2 percent. The annual growth rate of trend output will average at 1.7 percent in the forecast period, ¼ percentage point below the average of the...

After the worst phase of the financial and economic crisis has been overcome budgetary policies have to put public finances back on a sustainable path. The federal government aims at reducing the budget deficit according to the Maastricht definition below the ceiling of 3 percent of GDP from...

The research project WWWforEurope undertakes to lie the theoretical and empirical foundations for the embarkment on a new socio-ecological growth path in Europe. The new path underlines the need to guarantee Welfare as a broad universal principle for its population, assuring economic and social...

Framework conditions for fiscal policy remain difficult: besides the medium-term outlook of only moderate economic growth, the liquidation of Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank International AG will weigh on the budget. The need for further subsidies to (partly) nationalised banks in distress cannot be ruled...

Eine Reihe von westeuropäischen Ländern hat seit Mitte der 80er Jahre ihre synthetischen Einkommensteuersysteme hin zu einer so genannten dualen Einkommensteuer reformiert. Auch die meisten mittel- und osteuropäischen Transformationsländer führten gleich mit Beginn der Systemtransformation...