FAQ
Austria - Replacing Documents

We are able to help you obtain these documents from Austria:

• Lohnzettel: certificate of taxable incomes,
• L1 forms,
• U1: it proves the entitlement to unemployment benefits after your return from abroad,
• S1: it entitles the taxpayer to use the full health care in the home country while working in different country in the EU.

In addition, we can help you obtain an EWR form to give you unlimited taxpayer status. This will enable you to claim a refund and qualify for various other tax reliefs.

The Lohnzettel is a form that every employer must give to their employees at the end of the year. It is a certificate of the employee's annual income and the taxes withheld from each month's wages for the previous calendar year.

To obtain a Lohnzettel form, contact your employer and ask them to issue the form. If you had more than one employer, you will need a Lohnzettel form from each of them.

To obtain a U1 form, you will need the following documents:

• Power of Attorney (obtained from us),
• payslips or an annual income certificate Lohnzettel,
• all employment contracts for the given period,
• all employment termination certificates for the given period,
• other documents.

It always depends on your situation. We will be happy to obtain the U1 form for you. Read how the service works or fill in the order form straight away.

The L1 form is the official document for filing your Austrian tax return. The attachments to the L1 form include:

• L1i - is used to confirm that you have no income in your home country,
• L1k - to claim child‑related allowances,
• L1k-bF - for claiming discounts in specific cases.

The process of obtaining an L1i form is a little more complicated. It is not a publicly available document, so it cannot simply be downloaded and filled in. You have to request it from the Austrian tax office, which only communicates in German. The application is made electronically and you can choose how the form is delivered:

• electronically - when filing via Finanzonline,
• by post - when filing via the Finanzamt.

PD U1 form (Confirmation of periods to be taken into account for unemployment benefits) is a confirmation of employment abroad during which your employer paid unemployment insurance contributions on your behalf.

The form is issued by the foreign employment office after the employment termination and is submitted to the employment office in your home country or the country where you are claiming unemployment benefits.

You will need to present this document when you return from abroad to your home country or another EU country to claim unemployment benefits.