Financial contributions as well as means from the federal budget, serve under Art 34 of the KommAustria Act (KOG BGBl I No 32/2001 in its current version) for the financing of originating expenditure of the RTR in fulfilment of its legal duties. The following companies are required to pay an annual financial contribution to cover RTR's expenses beyond the amount of the Austrian federal budget. This contribution is based on each organization's share of its industry's overall revenues.
Companies,
- which, as providers or suppliers, are obliged to notify pursuant to Art. 6 TKG 2021, unless the use of a communications network, an associated facility or the use of a communications service for the distribution of electronic audio media and electronic audiovisual media within the meaning of Art. 1 Par. 1, including broadcasting within the meaning of the BVG Broadcasting Act or of additional services within the meaning of Art. 2 No. 44 of the Audiovisual Media Services Act is concerned (general license), or
- which have been granted frequency usage rights by the regulatory authority, or
- to whom the regulatory authority grants rights of use for numbering resources, or
- on which the regulatory authority has imposed obligations pursuant to Art. 13 Par. 2 of Directive (EU) 2018/1972 (persons obliged to contribute).
The financial contribution to be paid by each business is calculated using the ratio of the business revenues to the overall revenues of the industry, whereby all revenues generated in Austria from the provision of telecommunications services are to be used for the calculation.
The guidelines enclose a list of the specific revenues which are subject to financial contributions.
You can submit your projected revenues 2025 electronically via the RTR website (https://egov.rtr.gv.at).
If a user ID has been sent to you by registered mail (based on your network or service display at RTR-GmbH), you can use this ID to log in to the web interface. To report your projected revenues, click "Financial contribution" (Finanzierungsbeitrag).
If you do not yet have a user ID, please register as a new user at https://www.rtr.at/rtr/service/ertr/ertr_erstanmeldung.de.html . You will receive an e-mail containing the information necessary to use the web interface shortly thereafter.
We would require your projected revenues for 2025 by January 15, 2025 to be able to calculate your preliminary financial contribution for the year 2025. If we do not receive the necessary data by that time, we will estimate your revenues pursuant to Art 34 Par 7 KOG.
The financial contribution for 2025 is to be paid in four installments. Pursuant to Art 34 Par 9 KOG, these amounts are due at the end of each quarter (March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31 2025). In the assessment for the first quarter, financial contributions which do not exceed EUR 1,000.00 for the year will be calculated as a one-off payment covering the entire year. The resulting interest income for RTR is also accounted for in the assessment. Under Art 34 Par 12 KOG, RTR will account for financial contributions based on actual revenues and expenses in October of the ensuing year. Based on these calculations, RTR is required to credit the financial contributions paid in installments or to demand additional payments from individual contributors.
The spreadsheet for reporting revenues is available as download.
If you have any questions, please contact Ms. Birgit Dersch under +43 1 580 58 234 or at finanzierungsbeitrag@rtr.at.