Up to and including the 2019 assessment, it was the standard practice of the Graz City Tax
Office (responsible for VAT assessments for foreign entrepreneurs) to credit the input tax by
way of assessment even in an “interim year” in which the foreign entrepreneur did not
perform any taxable transactions in Austria.
Source: WTS
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