Brief analyses and information
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.
What the European fiscal rules mean for municipalities, federal states and the federal government (Podcast; German Version)
Changes to the pension system since 2018 incurred a budgetary burden of 7.5 billion euro (German version)
Political budget cycles in Austria: High budgetary burden due to “election goodies” since 2008 (German version)
Budgetary outlook 2024 and 2025 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council (German version)
Temporary real income losses of Austrian households due to the rise in inflation significantly mitigated by policy measures (German version)
Updated budgetary outlook 2023 and 2024 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory (German version)
Budgetary outlook 2023 and 2024 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council (German version)
Corporate energy cost subsidy II entails high budgetary burden and offers potential for improvement in the design of measures (German version)
Energy cost subsidy for companies II: Austria subsidizes more intensively than German under currently foreseeable energy prices (German version)
Impact of indexation to inflation under the Income Tax Act; “Abolition of tax bracket creep” (German version)
European Commission´s proposal for a reform of fiscal rules– main elements and assessment (German version)
Budgetary outlook 2022 and 2023 – a quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory (German version)
Policy statement by the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council: “Enhancing the EU fiscal framework”
Budgetary outlook 2022 and 2023 – A quick assessment of the Office of the Austrian Fiscal Advisory Council (German version)
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)
Measures during the COVID-19-crisis in 2020 effectively supported household incomes (German version)
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)
First assessment of the budgetary impact of the COVID-19 measures currently adopted by Parliament, including the recovery plan (German version)
Sustainability Reports of International Independent Fiscal Institutions in Comparison (German version)
Estimation of budgetary impact based on National Council decision´s of 2nd and 3rd July and 19th September 2019 (German version)
A first assessment of the budgetary effects of the tax reform 2019/20 and its counterfinancing measures (German version)
Fiscal compact fully implemented in Austria according to European Commission (German version)
Fiscal equalization scheme 2017 to 2021: many changes but no substantial regime shift (German version)
Summary of Fiscal Advisory Council workshop on fiscal rules for provinces and municipalities in Austria: possibilities and limitations (German version)
The Austrian banking support program and its implications for public finances (German version)
Summary of the Fiscal Advisory Council workshop on federalism reform in Austria: tax autonomy as a core element? (German version)
Transmission channels of country ratings and the impact of Austria´s recent downgrade to AA+ by Fitch (German version)