Within the first 10 days after starting work, cross-border commuters must register with the Foreigners and Passport Office in the Principality of Liechtenstein (APA) and apply for a cross-border commuter permit (GMB), which entitles the holder to work in Liechtenstein.

The Human Resources department will usually apply for the GMB for you. If the data is available, it will do this in advance and prior to your first day at work.

All people who move into or out of accommodation in Austria are subject to the reporting obligation. People who move into or out of accommodation in Austria are therefore obliged to register and deregister at the relevant registration office or local authorities (City of Feldkirch). This must be within three days of moving into the accommodation. If your main place of residence is in Austria, you have to register your primary residence in Austria, otherwise you must register your secondary residence.
Based on experience, it is advisable to register with the municipality even if you have not yet found an apartment (register at your hotel address). When registering, if you specify that you are either Roman Catholic or Protestant, the municipality automatically informs the responsible church tax office. The relevant tax office at the place of residence is informed automatically.
Documents required for registering with the municipality

• Public records showing surnames and first names, surnames before first marriage, date of birth, place of birth and nationality of the person taking up the accommodation (e.g. passport and birth certificate)
• Any documentary evidence of academic degrees
• For people taking up accommodation who do not have Austrian citizenship:
  • Travel document (e.g. passport)
• When registering a newborn child (at the registration office):
  • The child's birth certificate

Foreign documents must be submitted with a certified German translation, although documentation in English is generally accepted without a translation.
It should be noted that if you work as a cross-border commuter in Liechtenstein and your associated permanent residence is in Austria, this leads to a shift of your center of vital interest and thus your main place of residence. Relocation of the main place of residence to Austria may require further notification obligations (e.g. tax office at the place of residence, church tax office, vehicle registration/NoVa standardized fuel consumption tax), which you should take into account in any case.
 
More details at www.help.gv.at/ in German or English

EU/EFTA citizens benefit from visa exemption and have the right to reside in Austria for more than three months if they have sufficient resources and comprehensive health insurance for themselves and their family members and therefore do not need to claim any social benefits or compensatory allowance during their stay.
They must indicate this to the settlement authority. As documentation of their right of residence under European Union law, upon request they will be given a "certificate of registration". A corresponding application must be submitted within four months of entering Austria. After five years of uninterrupted legal residence in Austria, they receive a request for a "certificate of permanent residence". They can also obtain a photo ID for EEA nationals (which is also considered an identity document).
 
Third-country nationals are people who

• are neither EU citizens/EU citizens (German or English)
• nor other EEA citizens (from Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway) (German or English)
• nor Swiss.

Third-country nationals living in Austria for longer than six months or who hold an "ICT" residency permit from another member state and who are staying or wish to stay in Austria, need a residency permit.

You must register as a cross-border commuter with the responsible tax office within 14 days after your arrival. The following documents are required:

• Please fill out the "Beginn einer Tätigkeit als Grenzgänger/Grenzpendler (Verf61)" form in advance
• Registration form of the Austrian municipality of residence
• ID card/passport
• Salary slip or employment contract (information about annual gross salary is sufficient in most cases)

Following registration, you will receive your cross-border commuter permit (you must carry it with you at all times) as well as your tax classification. In Austria, an advance tax payment must be made every quarter (February 15, May 15, August 16 and November 15).

If you are not liable for income tax in Austria (e.g. main tax liability is at main place of residence) it is, however, advisable that you register with the tax office in Austria and submit a confirmation from the tax office of your main place of residence, proving that you are fully taxable in your home town. After inspecting the documents, the tax office in Austria will then also issue a registration card for cross-border commuters, stating that you are not taxable in Austria.
If there is no tax due to the amount of income, a cross-border commuter card will still be issued.
 
Further information is available from the tax office at the following address:
Finanzamt Feldkirch (FA98)            
Grenzgängerreferat (4. Stock)                       
Reichstr. 154                                                                  
6800 Feldkirch                                           
Tel. +43 50 233 233  

In the case of a fixed-term tenancy, you are not permitted to give notice during the first year, and thereafter with three months' notice to the end of the month. For indefinite rental agreements, the notice period that you have agreed in your rental agreement applies. If no notice period is specified in the rental agreement, the statutory notice period of one month applies. It is advisable to submit the notice of termination in writing by means of registered letter.

As a tenant, you are required to comply with the notice periods defined in the agreement or with the statutory notice periods. The landlord cannot be forced to let you move out of the apartment earlier, even if you propose a new tenant. It is only possible to move out in the case of a mutually agreed termination of the rental agreement, to which both contracting parties must agree.

In what condition does the apartment have to be returned?
You should always return the apartment in the same condition as when you rented it, minus all traces of normal wear and tear. The landlord must therefore accept all wear and tear that is in relation to normal living behavior and therefore occurs everywhere, unless otherwise expressly agreed. In individual cases, however, wear and tear is a matter of interpretation. All furniture that has not been rented with the apartment must be removed, and the apartment must be returned clean if it was clean at the start of the tenancy. When you move in, take photos of the condition of the apartment; this also makes it easier to prove the condition when you move out.

Do I have to paint the apartment white when I move out? The apartment must be returned in the same condition as when you took it over, minus all traces of ordinary wear and tear. If walls are painted in another color, this is also classed as standard wear and tear. However, according to case law, the landlord has the right to light-colored walls. A bright red or black wall would therefore need to be painted over. The effectiveness of the color obligations set out in the agreement is frequently fiercely debated.