The Mews Compliance Suite in Austria

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The Mews Compliance Suite helps Austrian properties meet their accommodation tax and fiscal obligations. In Austria, it includes Tax Automation, Tax Intelligence, and the Registrierkasse integration for Austria's cash register regulation, the RKSV. You purchase the Compliance Suite once from the Mews Marketplace and then choose which features and integrations to use.

 

In this article, you can learn about:

 

Tax Intelligence

Tax Intelligence is a dashboard and report in Mews Operations under the main menu > Finance > Tax Intelligence. It shows the accommodation taxes you collected and the exemptions you applied, and gathers the data your municipality usually asks for.

  • Dashboard: person nights, both taxable and exempt, a breakdown of tax collected by rate, and a month-by-month trend.
  • Monthly report: tax collected, occupancy, including room nights, person nights, and arrivals, and accommodation revenue split into taxable and exempt.
  • Exemption log: exempt stays, guests, and person nights grouped by reason, with a line for each guest.
  • Flexible and exportable: filter by week, month, quarter, or a custom period, and export to PDF or Excel.

Note: The report only includes stays where all bills are closed. Each stay is counted in the month of check-out.

You can watch a short overview in the video Tax Intelligence in Mews and learn more in our help article Introducing Tax Automation and Tax Intelligence.

Tax Automation

Accommodation taxes in Austria are set regionally and locally, and the rules change often. Tax Automation generates the right tax configuration for your property and keeps it up to date.

  • Setup in minutes: in Mews Operations, go to the main menu > Settings > Property > Finance > Tax Configuration, open the Tax automation tab, and enter your address, latitude and longitude, and property details. The star rating and category, such as 4 stars Superior, matter most, because they can change which taxes apply.
  • Configuration generated for you: Mews works with a specialist tax data provider to find the taxes that apply to your property.
  • Always up to date: when a tax authority publishes a change, your rates update automatically. You do not need to check anything manually.

You can watch a short overview in the video Tax Automation in Mews.

The Registrierkasse integration

Austria's cash register regulation, the RKSV, requires every property to sign each cash and card payment so the Federal Ministry of Finance, the BMF, can verify it. The Compliance Suite in Austria includes the Registrierkasse integration. Mews sets up the integration for you during onboarding.

  • QR code on every cash and card bill: the BMF can verify each payment.
  • Fiscal records generated automatically: the Monatsbeleg every month and the Jahresbeleg at the end of the year.
  • Export for audits: download the fiscal records the BMF requires from the Fiscal record report.

You can learn more in our help article Registrierkasse integration for the Austrian fiscal registry.

Disabling Tax Automation

You can disable Tax Automation at any time. Disabling it does not stop your Compliance Suite subscription, and the other integrations in your Compliance Suite stay unchanged.

  • Your configuration is deleted. Your accommodation tax rates are no longer updated automatically, so you need to check and update them yourself in Mews Operations under the main menu > Settings > Property > Finance > Tax Configuration. Tax Intelligence stays available in Finance as long as the Compliance Suite is active.
  • To enable it again, open the same Tax automation tab and set it up again as you did the first time.

To stop paying, delete the Compliance Suite from the Marketplace. To learn how the Compliance Suite works and what to check before you make a change, see Managing the Mews Compliance Suite.

Pricing

The Mews Compliance Suite costs EUR 25 per property per month. In Austria, it includes:

  • Tax Automation
  • Tax Intelligence
  • The Registrierkasse integration

For prices in other currencies, see Managing the Mews Compliance Suite.

You can learn more about the tax features in the Compliance Suite in our help article Introducing Tax Automation and Tax Intelligence.

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