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That's perfect. A tax assessment is the legally valid document that the Tax office issues. It shows a summary of your references, yours Tax exemptions and deductions and the amount of the tax credit for the relevant year.

Technically, submissions to the tax office are only planned from mid-January. In addition, especially in January / February, you will still receive relevant information or confirmations that may be relevant for tax compensation.

No, it is not a must. However, we offer this option to give you a to non-binding and informative pre-calculation of a possible tax credit/refund - the use of this service is absolutely voluntary.

Very easily. Your employer is legally obliged to submit to the tax office by the end of February of the following year at the latest (e.g. for the year 2021 by the end of February 2022) an annual wage slip for your wages / salary to transfer.

As a rule of thumb, we will forward your tax compensation to the within 3 days Tax office after we have completed the expert review. In exceptional cases it may take a little longer if the platform of the Tax office has maintenance work or when there is a lot going on. So far we have been able to submit most of them within a few hours.

Yes. After your tax return has been submitted, the tax office can send you or contact you to ask for evidence or confirmations. If this is the case, you will receive a letter directly from the tax office with the title Request for additions (Ersuchen um Ergänzung) and you usually have 1 month to answer this.

Congratulations. If you have an Austrian bank account, the tax office will automatically transfer this credit to you. If you do not have an Austrian bank account, you can simply write to the the tax office and request the payment. Template

Your Austrian bank, with which you have your account, is obliged to report this to the tax office. De facto, there has not been one for a number of years Bank secrecy is more in Austria and there is a so-called account register at the tax office.

This can happen in very specific specific cases. If this is really the case with you, our experts will check before submitting it to the tax office whether this is really the case by law and we will contact you to see whether there are still opportunities to deduct something from the tax.