The brief analyses offer a concise overview of current economic and fiscal policy issues or of research papers prepared by the staff of the Office of the Fiscal Advisory Council. They provide evidence-based information to policymakers and economic agents, media representatives and the general public.
New EU fiscal framework – new complexity (German version)
February 2024
Year of publication: 2024
Temporary real income losses of Austrian households due to the rise in inflation significantly mitigated by policy measures (German version)
December 2023
Year of publication: 2023
Updated budgetary outlook 2023 and 2024 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory (German version)
November 2023
Year of publication: 2023
Budgetary outlook 2023 and 2024 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council (German version)
April 2023
Year of publication: 2023
Corporate energy cost subsidy II entails high budgetary burden and offers potential for improvement in the design of measures (German version)
March 2023
Year of publication: 2023
Energy cost subsidy for companies II: Austria subsidizes more intensively than German under currently foreseeable energy prices (German version)
January 2023
Year of publication: 2023
Impact of indexation to inflation under the Income Tax Act; “Abolition of tax bracket creep” (German version)
December 2022
Year of publication: 2022
European Commission´s proposal for a reform of fiscal rules– main elements and assessment (German version)
November 2022
Year of publication: 2022
Budgetary outlook 2022 and 2023 – a quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory (German version)
November 2022
Year of publication: 2022
Budgetary impact of the partial electricity price cap (German version)
September 2022
Year of publication: 2022
Concept paper on fiscal rules (German version)
July 2022
Year of publication: 2022
Distributional effects of Inflation-Relief Packages in 2022 (German version)
July 2022
Year of publication: 2022
Effect of inflation on consumption in 2022 (German version)
Juni 2022
Year of publication: 2022
Budgetary costs of COVID 19 guarantees (German version)
Juni 2022
Year of publication: 2022
Policy statement by the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council: “Enhancing the EU fiscal framework”
May 2022
Year of publication: 2022
Budgetary outlook 2022 and 2023 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council (German version)
April 2022
Year of publication: 2022
50 years at a glance: the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council (formerly called Government Debt Committee) (German version)
Budgetary outlook 2021 and 2022 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council (German version)
November 2021
Year of publication: 2021
Distribution effects of the eco-social tax reform (German version)
November 2021
Year of publication: 2021
Measures during the COVID-19-crisis in 2020 effectively supported household incomes (German version)
April 2021
Year of publication: 2021
Budgetary Outlook 2020 and 2021 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council
Fiscal policy dimension of carbon emission targets and policy pptions for austria (German version)
Oktober 2020
Year of publication: 2020
First assessment of the budgetary impact of the COVID-19 measures currently adopted by Parliament, including the recovery plan (German version)
July 2020
Year of publication: 2020
Sustainability Reports of International Independent Fiscal Institutions in Comparison (German version)
June 2020
Year of publication: 2020
Update: Assessment of budgetary effects of COVID-19 pandemic in Austria
April 2020
Year of publication: 2020
First assessment of budgetary effects of COVID-19 pandemic in Austria (German version)
March 2020
Year of publication: 2020
Estimation of budgetary impact based on National Council decision´s of 2nd and 3rd July and 19th September 2019 (German version)
October 2019
Year of publication: 2019
A first assessment of the budgetary effects of the tax reform 2019/20 and its counterfinancing measures (German version)
May 2019
Year of publication: 2019
Fiscal compact fully implemented in Austria according to European Commission (German version)
March 2017
Year of publication: 2017
Fiscal equalization scheme 2017 to 2021: many changes but no substantial regime shift (German version)
November 2016
Year of publication: 2016
Summary of Fiscal Advisory Council workshop on fiscal rules for provinces and municipalities in Austria: possibilities and limitations (German version)
April 2016
Year of publication: 2016
The Austrian banking support program and its implications for public finances (German version)
January 2016
Year of publication: 2016
Implementation of the correction mechanism to secure the Austrian MTO (German version)
September 2015
Year of publication: 2015
Impact of the 2015/2016 tax reform– status quo (German version)
July 2015
Year of publication: 2015
Summary of the Fiscal Advisory Council workshop on federalism reform in Austria: tax autonomy as a core element? (German version)
March 2015
Year of publication: 2015
Transmission channels of country ratings and the impact of Austria´s recent downgrade to AA+ by Fitch (German version)
March 2015
Year of publication: 2015