The votes for fiscal autonomy increase in the Länder led by the ÖVP. After Günther Platter (Tyrol), Markus Wallner (Vorarlberg) and Johanna Mikl-Leitner (Lower Austria), LH Thomas Stelzer (Upper Austria) also argues that the federal states may collect taxes themselves. "Who, if not Upper Austria should be for tax autonomy of the states," Stelzer suggested to the APA. "For Oberösterreich, as the strongest economic and industrial country, I would expect significant benefits, other countries would probably have their problems."
"But if we really address this issue, it's a big hit." As the federal government only adding one or the other supplement to the countries here and there would not be enough for me, which would be a narrow-gauge solution, "said Stelzer.
"I think that makes sense, because I'm tired of hearing that the federal government raises taxes and that countries spend them", adds LH Mikl-Leitner [19659003] The initiative Wirtschaftsstandort Oberösterreich (IWS) also welcomes the debate on the tax sovereignty of the federal states. As reported, Platter would have liked the Swiss model, his Steirische colleague Hermann Schützenhöfer is a completely new financial compensation. According to the current financial settlement, which essentially builds on the population of a federal state, the dominance of Vienna as the capital, state and municipality becomes stronger, calculates IWS manager Kurt Pieslinger (photo). Although the establishment of a working group on tax autonomy for the federal states was decided during the financial compensation negotiations in 2016, this has so far been without result. A model for a new financial equalization was also presented by the Linz economics professor Friedrich Schneider on behalf of the IWS, said Pieslinger, who believes that the model could be the basis for negotiations.
Advantages of the IWS model [19659003] Under this model all indirect taxes remain with the federal government and directly with the federal states. Tax autonomy would bring together responsibilities in the area of income and expenditure at the political level, making superfluous tax compensation superfluous. A separate tax sovereignty of the countries would also imply a higher tax morale and more fairness. "Because the money stays in the country." And it would lead to competition, political innovation and more careful handling of tax money, according to Pieslinger.
Photo: IWS
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