Mag. Matthias Mitterlehner

At the beginning of November 2021, the Austrian Ministry of Finance published a draft bill on the eco-social tax reform 2022 which includes new rules for the taxation of income from crypto currencies.

The European Commission has started an initiative to introduce a common EU-wide system for withholding taxes on dividend or interest payments. 

The Austrian Administrative Supreme Court (Verwaltungsgerichtshof) had to deal with a trademark licensing between Malta and Austria. The Austrian trading company MCo had demerged its business and real estate to the Austrian company XCo in 2007. The trademarks stayed with MCo.