taxes
posted by Claudio H. in Austria forum
Hi Alex, as Susan say (Hello Susan!) in Europe employee jobs are taxed by withdrawing money from wages, so you should expect to get your money cleared from job taxes, but employers may state the salary either net or gross (Brutto in german), so as Susan said check out it. Brutto € 1500 in Austria is a really low wage. Beware also that you may be liable to pay further taxes if you get some other income (and they depends by which income is), and if those income are earn from Austria itself or from others EU countries, further you may claim refund if the money you paid for taxes (withdrawn from your wage) are in excess if you may prove allowances.
And finally since you seems to be a US citizen, the IRS will ask you to pay taxes also to the US, regardless you make such money abroad, so check about any treaty against double taxation between Austria and US, and even broadly between EU and US, so to know if you might be eligible to get refunds if you already paid taxes in Austria.
Eventually I suggest you to ask to an accountant or fiscal consultant, particularly because IRS, Austrian taxation is pretty strightforward and simple; yes they have high tax rates, but that's nothing compared to the italian taxation >:-(
I love Austria, and I would like to move there.Hope to be helpful,
greetings from Veneto.