Taxes
New environmental challenges for businesses
At the end of 2019, the Ministry of Industry and Trade announced another wave of calls within the Enterprise and Innovation for Competitiveness Operational Programme (OPPIK) focusing on energy savings and the efficient use of energy. The new…
Amendment to VAT Act for 2020: EC explains call-off stock arrangements
At its January session, the deputies’ chamber will discuss the amendment to the VAT Act introducing quick fixes in its second reading. Most neighbouring countries managed to implement the quick fixes before 1 January 2020. At the end of December…
Tax rate package published in Collection of Laws on New Year’s Eve
Just before Christmas, the Chamber of Deputies overruled the Senate and passed the original version of the tax rate package, which was then published on 31 December 2019 under No. 364/2019 and amends certain tax laws in connection with a plan to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
New calls to participate in EIC OP also available for large businesses
September has brought new calls to participate in the Enterprise and Innovations for Competitiveness Operational Programme (EIC OP), consisting of the Potential, Innovation, and Application Programmes. Subsidies will also be available for large…
Amendment to electronic reporting of sales and 10% VAT on food services and e-books
At the end of September, the president signed an amendment to the Act on the Electronic Reporting of Sales (ERS), based on which the remaining businesses and entrepreneurs so far omitted from the obligation will be subject to the mandatory…
Update on amendment to VAT Act for 2020 (quick fixes)
An extensive amendment to the VAT Act for 2020 (quick fixes), aiming to harmonise the VAT regime applicable to intra-community supplies of goods, has been submitted to the Chamber of Deputies. It implements the EU legislation and, therefore, within…