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“It stops there EU Commission release that CJD try if you have these doubts about the compatibility of the Indexing has, “said the family minister Christine Aschbacher in a first reaction to the announcement of the lawsuit. But “due to the different cost of living, we have EU it remains a matter of justice. “
Actually that’s the case Indexing the Family allowance at the end of April European court of law (CJD) The Austrian Federal Court of Finance introduced it.
The occasion was the complaint of a Czech cross-border traveler. The mother of two children lives with her family. Czech Republic, but works in Austria. After the previous turquoise blue government decided “Indexing“the tax office has its Family allowance reduced by 140 euros.
Later, the woman filed a complaint with the Federal Tax Court, which in turn suggested that the case of European court of law to clarify. Another 38 complaints against Indexing lie in court Austria In front.
In the crown crisis, criticism of the measure was recently raised again because it also affects 24-hour emergency nurses. However the ÖVP the withdrawal of the Indexing finally and you want the decision of the CJD Wait.
Additional payments threaten
Legal experts in Brussels I have always assumed that Austria with indexation of family allowance in the EU It will not prevail. If this were the case, another big problem would immediately arise: that of pension payments to pensioners living outside the EU.
Then, for example, a German retiree retiring in Spain spend less pension because the cost of living in Spain they are lower
Misses Austria before CJDAccording to legal experts, the republic should be forced to pay the amounts saved now.
