Application to defer or pay an administrative fine in instalments (Austria)
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An application to the district authority, the city's Magistrat or the Land police directorate to pay a fine from an Austrian penalty order or penalty decision later or in instalments (§ 54b Abs 3 of the Austrian Administrative Penal Act, VStG): with the file number, the amount, your payment proposal, your financial circumstances and why the difficulty is temporary. If paying at once is unreasonable for economic reasons, the authority must grant a suitable deferral or instalments. In German, ready to print, sign and send with proof of income and outgoings.
What you fill in
The details the document asks for.
- Sender
- Sender's address
- Fines authority (name as on its letter)
- Fines authority's address (street and number, then postcode and town, each on its own line)
- City
- Date
- Case number
- What you ask for: a deferral, instalments, or both
- What imposed the fine, with its date (e.g. Strafverfügung of 01.09.2026)
- Amount of the fine
- Your proposal (e.g. the whole amount by 15.01.2027, or 6 monthly instalments of €50 from 01.11.2026)
- Income, assets, debts and maintenance obligations (e.g. net income, loans, children you support)
- Why the difficulty is temporary (e.g. a new job from …, a loan ending)
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Common questions
- Can an administrative fine in Austria be paid later or in instalments?
- Yes, on application. If paying at once is unreasonable for economic reasons, the authority must grant a suitable deferral or instalments (§ 54b Abs 3 VStG). This is not at its discretion: where the conditions are met, you are entitled to it. Only economic reasons count, and they must show a temporary difficulty that the deferral or instalments will bridge.
- When does an Austrian authority refuse to defer payment of a fine?
- When the reasons given are not economic, when they do not show a merely temporary difficulty, or when there is good reason to think the fine could not be collected anyway. So enclose proof of income, outgoings, debts and maintenance obligations, propose a plan you can keep, and say when your situation will improve. If a fine cannot be collected, the alternative prison term set in the penalty order or decision may be enforced.
- To whom is the Austrian application addressed, and does it cover an on-the-spot fine?
- To the authority that imposed the fine – the district authority, the city's Magistrat or the Land police directorate – quoting the file number. It concerns fines imposed by a penalty order or a penalty decision. An Organmandat or an Anonymverfügung, by contrast, is paid within the period stated on it; if it is not, the ordinary procedure follows, and the application can then be made for the fine imposed there.
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