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Combating-Fraud Initiative

The financial police online

The financial police have the task of using their control activities to ensure fair and equal conditions for all participants in economic life. Tax and duty fraud leads to competitive distortions, harming both the economy and each individual who must, as a result, pay higher taxes. The preventive work of the financial police is intended, in the interests of the labour market and Austria as an economic location, to prevent, to the maximum extent possible, unfair competition as a result of illegal working and social welfare fraud. This serves to secure the pay and employment conditions of both Austrian and integrated foreign workers.

The data of those businesses and employees subject to controls is recorded directly in the online database of the financial police. The information is transmitted to numerous partners in the combat against fraud in the form of formal reports of offences, applications for criminal prosecution or control notices. The most important interface partners include the criminal prosecution authorities, labour inspectorates, courts, immigration authorities and employment market service. Onward transmission takes place mainly via electronic means.

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