Tax & Legal Update
Data leaks could cost you dearly
Last year, one of the historically highest penalties for breaches of personal data protection, CZK 1.5 million, was imposed on a well-known e-shop that had failed to protect its customers’ personal data including passwords to their user accounts. …
Unauthorised download of corporate data on a flash disc a particularly gross breach…
The Supreme Court sided with an employer who had immediately terminated the employment of an employee who without authorisation had downloaded 2.2 GB of work-related data on his flash disc. This is good news for all employers, though it must be…
Due managerial care – a new perspective?
The European Union is preparing a legal regulation aiming to put the finance sector at the forefront of efforts for a greener and cleaner economy. The new regulation will promote sustainable projects that may be loss-making over long periods with…
BEPS 2.0: Revolution in international taxation on the horizon
Following up on the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative, the OECD Secretariat published a document containing a new proposal for a unified and global approach to the taxation of the digital economy, BEPS 2.0, introducing a new method…
Another chance for large amendment to the Labour Code
A large draft amendment to the Labour Code from August last year has for a long time seemed forgotten. This October, however, a turning point came when the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs disclosed another large draft amendment. At the same…
Changes to distribution and payment of corporations’ profit and other components of…
Rules for the distribution and payment of profit and other components of equity should change substantially from 2021 through an amendment to the Act on Corporations, which has recently been submitted by the Chamber of Deputies to the Senate. The…
New government programmes for migration of foreign workers
Starting in September 2019 and in connection with changes to the Act on Residence of Foreign Nationals in the CR, government programmes facilitating the hiring of foreign workers have also been under revision. The most crucial change is the…
Subsidies for large businesses after 2020
In the 2021-2027 period, the Competitiveness Operational Programme (COP) will follow up upon the Enterprise and Innovations for Competitiveness Operational Programme (EIC OP), managed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The programme will…
Quick fixes: consignment stock arrangements from January 2020?
The amendment to the VAT Act implementing quick fixes will not be effective from 1 January 2020, since the Chamber of Deputies is yet to discuss it even in its first reading. So how should Czech VAT payers involved in the intra-community supply and…
Government approves digital services tax
The government submitted a bill introducing a 7% digital services tax to the Chamber of Deputies. The tax will apply to companies that are part of corporate groups generating a turnover of more than EUR 750 million and with a tax base relating to…
Amendment to VAT Act for 2020 (quick fixes): new developments in Brussels
The European Commission has published extensive draft explanatory notes on quick fixes. These include examples of how to declare changes in customers or refunds of goods within consignment (call-off) stocks in EC Sales Lists and new stock records,…
Rounding after amendment to VAT Act
The financial administration published information intended to solve the long-standing uncertainty regarding the correct calculation and subsequent rounding of VAT. The new rounding rules have been approved via the last amendment to the VAT Act, in…