Tax & Legal Update
Changes to 2019 tax package: new reporting duty and abuse of right concept
The 2019 tax package, in its external comment procedure since February, is about to be submitted to the government. The comment procedure brought a number of changes: the Ministry of Finance added a new duty to report income flowing abroad and…
Tax penalty with a prison sentence on top?
One of the topics frequently discussed by Czech judiciary and tax professionals is the concurrence of administrative and criminal sanctions. A crucial issue here is the relationship between a penalty imposed in tax proceedings, and a subsequently…
OECD issues release on reviews conducted within BEPS
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has issued a release that updates the results of preferential regime reviews conducted by the Forum on Harmful Tax Practices (FHTP) in connection with Action 5 under the Base Erosion…
Labour Inspection’s statistics: breaches of Labour Code not worthwhile
The State Labour Inspection Office conducted nearly 25 thousand inspections and collected over CZK 218 million in fines in the past year, according to the published results of inspections of compliance with labour-law regulations. Inspectors mainly…
Another step towards a common capital market
In March 2018, the European Commission prepared a set of legislative proposals aiming to promote alternative sources of financing and remove barriers to cross-border investments. The EU thus continues its efforts to create a Capital Markets Union,…
2019 amendment to VAT Act: first four biggest changes
The amendment to the VAT Act has passed through its comment procedure and is about to be submitted to the Chamber of Deputies. Below we present the first four most significant changes.
Changes to 2019 tax package: corporate income tax
The proposed amendment to the Income Tax Act has passed through external comments and is now available in the government’s public electronic library, with some fundamental changes to its wording compared with the previous version.
CJEU again ruled on transport in chains of transactions
In its February decision (C-628/16), the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) again dealt with how to attribute transport or dispatch to two successive intra-community supplies. According to the CJEU, transport may not be ascribed to the…
End of never-ending story on concurrence of offices?
Czech judiciary again dealt with the (un)acceptability of the concurrence of offices, i.e. whether members of a corporation’s statutory body may at the same time perform activities for the same company under an employment relationship. This time,…
CJEU: deduction of VAT on input must be allowed upon assessment of additional VAT on…
Recently, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dealt with two interesting and in principle similar cases that both involve the rectification of incorrectly declared supply in terms of VAT. Whereas national courts denied the customer’s…