17. 8. 2017
17. 8.
2017
Last month’s tax and legal news in a few sentences.
- The Ministry of Industry and Trade decided to terminate the acceptance of applications for support under the current call within the Energy Saving programme as of 31 October 2017; originally, the call should have been open until March 2018. The reason for the early termination is the low interest of applicants. At the same time, a new call is being prepared under the programme, to be announced by the end of November 2017. The ministry plans to increase the share in the total allocation earmarked for large enterprises to 60% (from an existing 20%).
- Amendment to the Construction Code (No. 225/2017 Coll.) effective from January of next year was published in the Collection of Laws.
- On 15 August 2017, an amendment to the Act of Foreigners’ Residence (published under No. 222/2017 Coll.) will enter into effect, introducing, among other things, a residency permit for investment purposes.
- On 14 July 2017, an amendment to the Employment Act, Labour Code, Labour Inspection Act and other legal regulations was promulgated under No. 206/2017 Coll. It brings changes in particular in the area of non-discrimination, agency employment, job applicants’ gainful activity and inability to work, and substitute supplies; it also defines new offences that may be committed by individuals and legal entities (misdemeanours and administrative delicts).
- The new Act on Citizen Identity Cards (No. 195/2017 Coll.) will enter into effect on 1 July 2018. The president also signed a related law, the Act on Electronic Identification (Print No. 1069); it codifies, for instance, the rules for using ID cards with a chip, in line with EU directives. The functioning of the system (effective from 1 July 2018) will be supervised by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which will be issuing respective accreditations to providers of the services.
- Taxpayers who have filed their individual income tax return and immovable property tax return in other than electronic form although it was their duty to file electronically will be first asked to correct the situation and will be penalized only after they fail to do so. The financial administration also updated the list of filings to be viewed as filed correctly even if filed in other than electronic form while they should have been filed electronically.
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