“Relief billion” will be significantly smaller

As part of the anti-inflation package, employees can claim a negative tax credit of 500 euros for 2022, which will lead to underpayments in 2023. Minister of Finance Magnus Bruner (VP) promised a “relief billion”. According to the Parliament’s budget service, according to its own calculations, the relief volume is actually significantly lower. The budget controllers do not state in their report how high the relief actually turns out to be.

There was criticism from the opposition: the budget service had “caught the turquoise-green government in the act of cheating,” commented SP federal manager Christian Deutsch. For Neos social spokesman Gerald Loacker, the “fairy tale of the great relief” is the next chapter of “dishonest politics”. The government only wants to “fight the symptoms,” said FP business spokesman Erwin Angerer.