Highly qualified scientists and researchers moving to Austria from another country are entitled to extensive tax benefits.

Requirements:

• The task has to be predominately scientific (including corresponding administration, but excluding teaching)
• The influx is of public interest for Austria, because it serves the advancement of science and research in Austria (e.g. university professors, scientists working at a university within their subject for habilitation (or related field), people with “postdoc-excellence grants”)
• The center of life interests is shifted to Austria (e.g. influx with family)
• The center of life interests was not in Austria within the last five to ten years, depending on the requested benefit.
• Written application by the moving scientist/researcher has to be submitted to the Federal Ministry of Finances within six months after influx. (Attention: Extension of the deadline not possible!) The application can also be submitted via FinanzOnline, opens an external URL in a new window.

Types of influx benefits (combinations are possible as well):

• The tax deduction (“Zuzugsfreibetrag”) amounts to 30% of the domestic and foreign income from scientific activities, if subject to the regular Austrian income tax rate.
• The “Zuzugsfreibetrag” is granted for a period of five years by official notice.

Elimination of additional tax burden (flat average tax rate):

• Eliminating additional tax burden by taxing certain foreign income of the moving person at a flat average tax rate of at least 15%. The flat tax rate results from the ratio between the foreign tax of the last three calendar years and the income earned abroad in the same period.
• After the tenth calendar year, the tax is gradually adjusted to the Austrian level of taxation.
• Domestic income is not eligible for tax benefit.

For more information, please visit the website of the Federal Ministry of Finance, opens an external URL in a new window. (available in German only)

!(For information only - the JKU assumes no legal responsibility.)!

Linz: the 2009 Capital of Culture, UNESCO Creative City, the opera house, Ars Electronica, theater and concerts ... Linz has long shed its "industrial" image and boasts over 51 parks and 700 hectares of forest and woodlands. Although Linz is even often referred to as one of Austria's greenest cities, Linz also continues to be one of the country's most important economic regions with direct exports in the billions, more job openings than residents, and a constant stream of new ideas. If that's not enough, in just an hour you can get to the beautiful mountain regions, lakes, to Vienna, or to Salzburg, and even neighboring countries such as Germany and the Czech Republic. The saying that almost anything is possible here rings true!

Click on the links below for additional information about the state of Upper Austria:

Schools are educational institutions providing opportunities to learn and acquire skills to ultimately attain an educational objective. Schools are dependent institutions, governed by a legal body. In this regard, there is a distinction between public schools (school operator: federal government, state, or city) and private schools.

See the links below to learn more about individual types of schools and various educational programs:

General information about childcare services:

The Pre-Registration and Registration Procedure

Contact the childcare facility or the facility's provider (city council, municipality, parish, association, JKU Linz, etc.) for information about the registration procedure. Please note the information provided regarding the registration deadline and the registration procedure.

Detailed information is available heren:

Fees/Payment by Parents

Parents are subject to paying fees for child(ren) age 30 months or younger; once the child starts school (or the child does not have a primary residency in Upper Austria).

Mandatory Kindergarten Attendance

Kindergarten attendance is mandatory in Upper Austria and applies to all children who have main residency in Upper Austria, who have turned 5 before September 1 of that respective year, and are expected to begin school during the following year up until they begin school.

Are you interested in moving permanently to Upper Austria?

Initially, the Office of Onboarding & Dual Career Services will try to arrange accommodations for professors and their families in a so-called "Professor House via the Upper Austrian University Fund. If nothing is available, these are some alternatives:

The following links provide information about building your own house:

The following links provide information about accommodations and housing:

Here is some helpful information to assist with your move.

Before Moving - Checklist, opens an external URL in a new window

After Moving - Checklist, opens an external URL in a new window

Registering a new main residence or "secondary residence", opens an external URL in a new window

Moving to Austria, opens an external URL in a new window

Application Tip, opens an external URL in a new window

Curriculum vitae in tabular form, opens an external URL in a new window

Open positions at the JKU, opens in new window

Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), opens an external URL in a new window

Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), opens an external URL in a new window

Academy of Sciences, opens an external URL in a new window

The Austrian Science Funds (FWF), opens an external URL in a new window

The Ludwig Boltzmann Society, opens an external URL in a new window

The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), opens an external URL in a new window