New year and new release

The coming turn of the year brings with it a change in the VAT regime in Austria. As part of the measures adopted by the federal government in the course of Corona, the VAT rates of 10% and 13% were temporarily reduced to a reduced rate of 5%. The measure applied to gastronomy, the hotel industry, the cultural sector as well as the publication sector. This temporary regulation expires at the end of the year. As of 01 January 2022, the old VAT rates pursuant to § 10 of the Value Added Tax Act (UStG 1994).

Cash register systems and other electronic recording systems must be converted accordingly in good time. The VAT department of the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) has issued a statement on the offsetting of services extending over the turn of the year.

Zitat: “For reasons of administrative economy, turnover in the hotel and catering sector that is exported during the night from 31 December 2021 to 1 January 2022 may be treated uniformly in accordance with the legal situation up to 31 December 2021 or in accordance with the legal situation from 1 January 2022.”

This means that hotels and restaurants that entertain guests in the night from 31.12.2021 until midnight and provide services that are not invoiced until after the turn of the year can choose whether to apply the reduced tax rate or the old one.

The new “old” VAT rates can be validated from version 1.2.7, which will be made available by us this week.

Version 1.2.6

Since this week, a new version of the Fiscal Client is available for download. As announced, the Fiskal Client is now available as a Docker Container on the Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/u/retailforce. Instructions for commissioning the container can be found on our support portal at: https://support.retailforce.cloud/hc/en-gb/articles/4413162938641-Linux-TrustedFiscalService-as-Docker-Container.

Significant new functions and improvements

  • Austria: the RestoreByCloud function now automatically checks whether the cash register is already registered in FinanzOnline. If this is not the case, the cash registration will be carried out.
  • Austria: to avoid rounding differences, VAT totals can be transmitted for the entire document (Document model version 1.0.3.)
  • General: the last saved document can be retrieved by the Fiscal Client

Furthermore, the error handling has been improved.

As always, you will find all changes, additions and improvements in the current Release-Notes.