Budget 2025: Finance Minister Marterbauer sets the course for the future!

Budget 2025: Finance Minister Marterbauer sets the course for the future!

On June 11, 2025, the final consultations in the budget committee on the financial agents for 2025 and 2026 under the direction of Finance Minister Markus Marterbauer took place. In these discussions, a total of eight budget subdivisions of the financial department focused on, with the federal financial framework for the years 2025 to 2028 and 2026 to 2029. The Austrian National Bank (OENB) predicts a slight increase in real gross domestic product by 0.2 %for 2025. Marterbauer expects further assessments from the Wifo-Juni forecast.

Another central topic is the planned new edition of the energy current bonus, for which complete counter -financing is required. The MPs were particularly interested in measures to combat tax fraud. In autumn 2025, a task force is to present the first concrete measures. In addition, reforms in the departure taxation and the abolition of the input tax deduction in luxury real estate are considered.

budget and income

The budget for 2026 provides for revenue of 270 million euros, which should increase to 450 million euros by 2029. In addition, additional income of 1.44 billion euros is budgeted. According to the plans of 114.3 billion euros in 2024, gross taxes are expected to increase to 122.1 billion euros in 2026. The AB transfers to countries and the European Union are also important because they will also increase.

The introduction of crypto control also took place, with an increase in interim tax for foundations. It is also striking that the tax rate has increased in recent years. As part of the budget accompanying law, an exemption of commercial vehicles from the standard consumption tax (Nova) is planned. The payments of the financial equalization were scheduled for EUR 3.908 billion in 2025, but decreased slightly to EUR 3.826 billion in 2026.

civil servants and payments

The payments for civil servants are expected to increase by 6.1 % to 13.4 billion euros in 2025. In contrast, the withdrawals for the processing of contaminated sites decrease to 0.3 million euros annually. For the financial administration, payments of 1.56 billion euros for 2025 and 1.455 billion euros for 2026 are scheduled for 2025 and 1.455 billion euros. On the other hand, the withdrawals for government investments and crisis measures drop strongly, while the financing costs are growing due to higher interest payments.

As part of the meetings of the budget committee, which took place on the current and medium -term perspectives of the budget situation, there were controversial debates. The ÖVP and the Greens voted for the capping of the pension increases for 2025
. According to Parliament's documents, numerous sessions in which various topics were dealt with have taken place in recent months, from indexing the allowances to the discussion about the Federal Calculation Deployment from 2023.

Additional insights into the current state of financial policy in Austria offer information about the reformed stability and growth pact of the EU, which came into force in spring 2024. This sets upper limits for public debts and deficits. A judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court in November 2023 presented loans from a special fund to coping with the corona crisis as unconstitutional and brought the federal government into financial difficulties. This is one of the topics that shape the political debate about the debt brake and possible solutions to close household holes.

For further details on the discussion results and planned measures, you can report the reporting of OTS , Parlament.gv.at and BPB.de Consult