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Germany and Austria Sign Agreement on Taxation of Cross-Border Workers During COVID-19 Pandemic

20 April 2020

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Treaty Development

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Germany-Austria

The German Ministry of Finance has published an agreement signed with Austria on 15 April 2020 concerning the taxation of cross-border workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The agreement is made under the 2000 Germany-Austria tax treaty and provides that in cases where a cross-border worker is required to work from home due to COVID-19, the days spent working from home will be treated as working days in the Contracting State in which the worker would normally be working, if not for COVID-19. The agreement applies to working days in the period 11 March to 30 April 2020 and will automatically...