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3 December 2020 Police and customs seize cannabis valued at EUR 1.3 million
 
During a targeted check in Burgenland, police succeed in arresting two suspects attempting to smuggle 125 kg marijuana into Austria in 113 packages.
 

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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
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        • 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
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          • Corona Aids: Blümel demands temporary suspension of EU state aid law
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          • Blümel: Phase II of the hardship fund to be extended
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        • 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
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          • 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
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          • 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
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          • Government consultation: €50 billion for rescue, relief and investments
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          • Finance Minister Blümel: deferral of loan repayments for private individuals and micro-enterprises extended by four months
        • July 2020
          • Austria assumes chair of EUROFISC
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        • August 2020
          • Blümel: Applications open for second tranche of fixed cost grant
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          • 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
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          • 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
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          • 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
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        • January 2021
          • EU expands State Aid Framework
          • Financial Police take stock of a successful year in 2020
          • Customs officers stop animal traffickers: 74 endangered chameleons found in suitcase with black market value at around EUR 37,000
          • Blümel: 'Turnover loss bonus' - up to 30% of turnover, capped at EUR 60,000 per month
          • Financial Police conduct investigations at Amazon partners
          • Linz customs officers uncover illegal cigarette production in Lower Austrian district of Bruck an der Leitha
          • Blümel: 2021 to bring biggest reform in the Tax Administration--better service for individuals and businesses
        • 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"
          • 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
          • Customs and police again rescue 9 trafficked puppies
        • 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
          • Ministry of Finance/Customs: £46,000 carried across half Europe hidden under a mattress in a van
          • 261 kg cannabis resin worth EUR 2.5 m seized by Customs in Kufstein
          • Looking back on a successful year for the Finance Ministry's Coronavirus Hotline – 361 000 queries resolved
          • Blümel: Successful meeting with Daniel Risch, Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Liechtenstein
        • May 2021
          • New BMF app - a European showcase project: one step ahead of the cigarette smugglers
          • Fitch keeps Austria's AA+ credit rating and ensures stable outlook
          • Austria's plan for the EU Recovery Fund
          • Vienna Airport: Customs check on passenger carrying EUR 97 510 in cash confiscated to pay outstanding tax debt
          • Finance Ministry/Customs: High numbers of live animals trafficked in Q1 2021
          • Notional interest on equity - the key to greater crisis resilience
          • New President of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council, Christoph Badelt, pays inaugural visit to Finance Minister Gernot Blümel
          • Blümel: "No let-up in the dedication of our customs officers even during the pandemic!"
        • June 2021
          • Blümel: "Customs investigation into international cigarette mafia reaches final conclusion" – Illegal production machine destroyed
          • Blümel: Helping businesses repay deferred taxes
          • Potentially record-breaking illicit earnings stash uncovered by Tax Fraud Investigation Unit: more than 3.5 m euros had been hoarded
          • EU customs regulations: 22-euro exemption threshold scrapped from the beginning of July
          • Financial help for badly affected businesses extended
          • Blümel: “The tenacity of the Financial Police is paying off. We will not back down even if a global minimum tax rate is implemented.”
          • Stopped by Customs: jeweller wanted to bring 4.5 kilos of gold jewellery into the country illegally
          • Customs officials catch smuggler in the green channel
          • Blümel: “Heavy blow dealt to illegal gambling”
          • Blümel: Explosion in numbers of dummy companies in Vienna
          • Blümel and Kocher present control plan
        • July 2021
          • Blümel: Seeking to ensure tax transparency and to combat the transfer of profits
          • Minister Blümel welcomes agreement on global tax reform
          • Blümel: Corona help for the economy is working: 90 per cent of businesses do not need the special Covid-19 instalment payment facility
        • August 2021
          • In a week of targeted action, Finance Ministry and Interior Ministry intercept 180 welfare offenders at border controls
          • Blümel: Economic recovery is setting government budget on a positive course
          • Blümel: "We will return to a sound fiscal policy"
          • Applications open for two categories of coronavirus assistance
          • Finance Ministry/Customs: Passenger attempts to export EUR 46 000 for Cairo apartment purchase
          • Blümel: Austrian economy is picking up speed, now ranks second in the EU
          • Blümel: In 2020, Tax Fraud Investigation Unit recovered EUR 172 million in the fight against fraud
          • Ministry of Finance/Customs: 12 years of the Trade in Species Act – 818 seizures of endangered species at Vienna Airport
          • Blümel/Schwarz: New Productivity Council to be established in Austria
          • Blümel offers his congratulations to the new Chair of the ÖBAG, Edith Hlawati
          • Smoked out: airport customs force seizes 7.6 tonnes of counterfeit shisha tobacco
          • Blümel: Austrian economy and Austrian businesses in a positive mood - instalment payment model proving its worth
          • Austria to issue Green Bonds for the first time in 2022
        • September 2021
          • Blümel: Continuing positive trend - economy now bigger than pre-crisis level
          • Customs officers conduct 173 000 successful operations and controls in first half of 2021
          • 'Coalition of responsibility' backing Stability and Growth Pact
          • Blümel: Positive trends in the employment market, tax income and the budget
          • Blümel: 5 million to help the recovery in Eastern Europe
          • Blümel presents national financial education strategy: 'My money, my life, my decision – I'm sure'
          • EU recovery fund: Austria receives EUR 450 million pre-financing from EU
        • October 2021
          • Blümel: “We’re reducing tax for everyone who goes to work and is industrious”
          • Blümel: 2022 Budget stands for recovery, stability and sustainability
        • November 2021
          • Blümel: Millionth COFAG application for Corona aid processed
          • Eco-social tax reform creates a framework for the taxation of cryptocurrencies
          • Blümel presents first sitrep on Tax Authority Austria
          • Blümel: Economic upturn clearly evident in federal budget
          • Blümel: Trusted forms of assistance for the domestic economy and jobs
          • Ministry of Finance responds to changed world of work: Tax benefits for home office
          • Blümel: "Reactivation and extension of coronavirus assistance to protect the economy and workers"
          • Application deadline extended for fixed cost subsidy 800 000 and loss compensation I
          • Blümel: “We’re reducing tax for everyone who goes to work and is industrious”
        • December 2021
          • Blümel/Köstinger: Rapid assistance vital to support businesses and workers
          • The Budget in Charts and Figures
          • Blümel hands over office to Brunner at the Finance Ministry
          • Finance Minister Brunner: "We are continuing to help impacted sectors of the economy"
          • Finance Minister Magnus Brunner invites top economic researchers to exchange of ideas
      • Press Releases 2022
        • February 2022
          • Finance Minister Magnus Brunner meets UK counterpart Rishi Sunak: green finance, digital tax, COVID recovery and economic support also on the agenda
          • Customs officers in Upper Austria seize more than 60 pieces of ivory jewellery and art
          • Financial Police raid poppy processing factory: 13 undocumented workers deported
          • Graz woman fined after half a million fermented plums smuggled into Austria
        • March 2022
          • Brunner: Austria's AA+ rating confirmed: Outlook improved to "positive"
          • Brunner: Austria supports Ukraine aid program of the World Bank with 10 million euros
          • The relief package in action – calculate your savings now at bmf.gv.at/entlastungsrechner
          • Finance Minister Magnus Brunner gives green light for €150 energy costs voucher
          • Austrian customs prevents the illegal sale of four rare parrots – red-fronted macaws (Ara rubrogenys) and military macaws (Ara militaris)
          • Tax justice ensured online too: no fewer than 7.5 million reports filed by online platforms since 1 January 2020
          • Customs: over 300,000 counterfeit products confiscated in 2021
        • April 2022
          • Finance Minister Brunner: "Customs offices protect the economy and citizens at the gateway to the rest of the world"
          • Austria, IMF renew agreement on Joint Vienna Institute
          • Finance Minister Magnus Brunner says 150-euro energy costs voucher will now go to 4 million households
        • May 2022
          • Finance Minister Brunner elected Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
          • Brunner/Tursky: Three goals for taking greater advantage of digitalisation for Austria
        • June 2022
          • Section head Waiglein re-elected in a key position at EU level
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