Companies receive compensation for turnover of between 20 and 80 per cent «kleinezeitung.at

20, 40, 60, or 80 percent of November 2019 sales are now officially closed businesses. But who gets how much? An overview.

Since Markus Zottler | 6:31 PM, November 14, 2020

The so-called “sales replacement” was introduced as an aid to the “partial lockdown” almost two weeks ago. Essentially, companies then officially closed (from the hospitality, catering, leisure, sports and culture sectors) now receive 80 percent of their sales as of November 2019 from the public sector. Currently, according to figures from the Ministry of Finance, 30,041 apps with a total volume of more 900 million euros presented. Of this, “more than 800 million will be paid in the next few days”, or have already been paid.

Well, as the lockdown extends, the government is also adjusting compensation payments. You bet on one from now on stepped variant. By “recommendation of the Constitutional Service”, as the government says. That has to do, according to the Ministry of Finance, with “different framework conditions, as well as sales and profit requirements in different areas.”

For “service”, for example, says the Minister of Finance Gernot Blümel, consumption cannot be offset.

80 percent for “body hugging” service providers

Affected companies receive payment based on how they are affected 80, 60, 40, or 20 percent of November sales of the previous year as a replacement.

But who gets how much?

• 80 percent, that is, the maximum, is paid to all those who “body hugging services“This includes hairdressers, massage therapists, and beauticians.
• 60 percent will be replaced by commercial companies thatmore blicher“or”strongly seasonal productsThe Finance Ministry cites the flower trade as an example.
• Companies dealing with “stable value goods“Act. Say, with goods for which too”after three weeks no depreciation or decrease in demand is expectedThe furniture trade is mentioned as an example from the political side.
• 40 percent of November sales of the previous year, the government speaks of the “Base“of the new sales substitute, the rest of the operations now closed should receive.

Because this tiered variant is, of course, much more complex than the first flat rate version of revenue replacement, the government speaks of the now necessary “technical adjustments“That needs to be done. Until then, the application for income replacement at FinanzOnline will first be “impossible”. The objective, however, explains Gernot Blümel, is that sales from 23.11. it should be possible.