FinanzOnline [+]

FON [+] is the official service app of the Ministry of Finance and offers the following features:

• News
• Personalized appointments (tax deadlines for entrepreneurs, family allowance payout dates, etc.)
• Calculators (e.g., gross-net calculator)
• Customs section with information on duty-free amounts, exemptions, online shopping, relocations, and vehicles
• Tax office search
• Tax return

This tax return service is a special feature for individuals with income as employees, workers, or retirees. Tax-relevant expenses such as work-related expenses or extraordinary burdens can be easily, electronically, and effectively recorded. The recording process is intuitive and intelligently designed to facilitate the entry of receipts. Users can choose from a variety of different recording categories. In the background, the recording categories are automatically assigned to the correct figures for work-related expenses, extraordinary burdens, and special expenses. This allows for a quick preparation of the annual employee assessment (tax return). The direct, secure connection to the tax authorities is available directly from the app. In FinanzOnline [+], most of the L1-, L1k-, and L1ab-figures can be determined directly. This L1-Light employee assessment can also be submitted electronically directly from FinanzOnline [+]. Alternatively, there is also the option to transmit the figures determined in FinanzOnline [+] to FinanzOnline to complete the employee assessment there.

In the app's customs section, you will find important information and tips for entry into Austria. You can quickly and easily find answers to common questions about customs such as duty-free allowances and quantities etc. Since this part of the app also works in offline mode, it can be used abroad without internet access.

To log in to FinanzOnline [+] as an authenticated user, the Digital Office app is required. Login is necessary for some functions such as querying personal data or submitting an employee assessment. However, most functions of FinanzOnline [+] can be used without logging in.

Tax return features:

• Easily, quickly, and continuously record receipts
• Add electronic receipts (photos / PDF invoices) to individual expenses
• Edit or delete receipts later
• An overview of recorded transactions and receipts is automatically generated
• Automatic depreciation calculation and asset inventory creation
• Ongoing intra-year forecast calculation for tax credit (or payment) including Family Bonus Plus
• Plausibility checks
• Retrieve annual wage slip data directly through the tax administration IT systems*
• Retrieve pre-calculation before submitting employee assessment directly in FinanzOnline [+] (analogous to FinanzOnline)*
• Automatically generate L1-Light tax return (including supplementary forms L1ab and L1k) and submit electronically*
• Or transmit entered L1 declaration (including supplementary forms L1ab and L1k) to FinanzOnline for direct completion*
• Export automatically generated figures for future use (e.g., transfer to tax advisor or direct entry into FinanzOnline at E1)
• Perform individual export of expense overview, receipts, and asset inventory or total export of tax return data per assessment year
• Automatically create a "snapshot" with the status of data at the time of tax return transmission to the tax authorities
• Backup function
• Automatic master data transfer for subsequent years*

• * These functions can only be performed in a logged-in state due to personal data usage.