Austrian Public CbCR: What You Need to Know

A new era of tax transparency begins in Austria in 2025 with the introduction of public Country-by-Country Reporting (Public CbCR). The Austrian CbCR Publication Act (CBCR-VG), published in the Federal Law Gazette BGBI I 83/2024 on July 17, 2024, implements Directive (EU) 2021/2101, amending the EU Accounting Directive. The EU Implementing Regulation 2024/2952, published on […]

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Public Country-by-Country Reporting & Tax Transparency

The EU introduced the Public Country-by-Country Reporting (CbC Report, or CbCR) Directive in November 2021 by which a vast number of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the member states are obliged to publicly display corporate income tax data. Austria published a first draft of implementing this Directive into Austrian tax law in April 2024. While many […]

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Draft legislation on “Public CbCR” published

On 4 April 2024, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice published the consultation draft on the “Austrian Federal Act on the Publication of Country-by-Country Reports (CbCR) on Income Tax Information”. This legislation transposes Directive (EU) 2021/2101 amending the EU Accounting Directive regarding the publication of income tax information by specific companies and branches into Austrian […]

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Romania: Obligatory Public Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR) beginning in 2023

On 21 December 2021, a new EU Directive (“Directive (EU) 2021/2101”) entered into force. Under the Directive, companies are required to publish a so-called “report on income tax information” (“Public CbCR”). Romania was the first EU Member State to implement the directive into national law. Therefore, for financial years beginning on or after 1 January […]

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Public Country-by-Country Reporting

On 21 December 2021, a new EU Directive (“Directive (EU) 2021/2101”) entered into force, amending the EU Accounting Directive. Under the Directive, companies are required to publish a so-called “report on income tax information” (also referred to here as “Public CbCR”). The goal of Public CbCR is to introduce an instrument for increasing transparency and enhancing […]

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