FPÖ and NEOS commemorated the so-called “Tax Freedom Day” on Tuesday (August 15). By that date (calculated by the economically liberal Austrian Economic Center and the Hayek Institute), taxpayers in Austria will have paid their taxes and duties and, purely mathematically, will only be able to freely dispose of their income from that date. “Until August 15, people in Austria only work for the state, after that only out of their own pocket,” criticizes NEOS economic and social spokesman Gerald Loacker.
“Austria is a country with absolutely high taxes, in which work in particular is overloaded,” says Loacker in a press release. People simply don’t have enough net of gross – “while record inflation washes billions and billions into the Treasury Secretary’s coffers”.
criticism of the government
According to Loaker, the ÖVP and the Greens have “more than enough leeway to use this extra revenue to really relieve people and businesses in our country”.
Austria a “high-tax country”
Dagmar Belakowitsch, social spokeswoman for the FPÖ, said in a broadcast that by then the average taxpayer had “already seven months and 15 days toiled for the finance minister”. In European comparison, Austria is a “high-tax country”. “If this circumstance were associated with an increased standard of living, one might be able to deal with it.”
But the situation looks very different — because of an “unjust black-green policy, with record inflation, a broken health system, corporate bankruptcies and rising unemployment,” she said.
The “green minorities program” is “mercilessly” driving the “weakening coalition partner” ÖVP ahead of it, according to Belakowitsch. She referred to “NoVA increase, CO2 fine levy, case of increased commuting allowance and many more brutal, anti-civil measures”.
Source: Krone
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