Tax & Legal Update
Top-up taxes: information exchange within EU and other legislative developments
On 6 May 2025, Council Directive (EU) 2025/872 amending Directive 2011/16/EU on administrative cooperation in the field of taxation was published in the EU Official Journal. The directive creates the conditions for the EU-wide filing of single top…
Employee stock and option plans: notifying tax administrator of taxation postponement
The amendment to the Income Tax Act under which the taxation of an employee’s income from share and option plans can only be postponed if the employer notifies the tax administrator of this choice, became effective from 1 April 2025. The General…
New decree on calculating floor area for VAT purposes
The Ministry of Finance presented a draft of a new decree on the method of calculating floor area for VAT purposes. The decree responds to changes in legislation pertaining to real estate and construction, about to enter into force on 1 July 2025.
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All eventsPackaging Regulation brings stricter rules
The new Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation is to fundamentally change how manufacturers package their products, and how consumers sort, return, and recycle packaging. It presents stricter restrictions on single-use plastics, stipulates that…
Lawyers to verify electronic signatures
A new decree allowing lawyers (attorneys-at-law) to verify electronically signed documents should soon enter into force. This novelty will make life easier for (not only) entrepreneurs in business dealings.
SAC on tax deductibility of provisions for repairs of tangible assets
In its recent judgment, the Supreme Administrative Court dealt with the creation of provisions for repairs of tangible assets under the Reserves Act. The key issue was the (non-) fulfilment of the condition that provisions may only be created for…
CJEU Advocate General: transfer pricing and VAT treatment
In his opinion (C-726/23), Advocate General Jean Richard de la Tour stated that remuneration for intra-group services calculated using the transactional net margin method as recommended by the OECD should be regarded as consideration for services…
Recovering VAT on bad debts in 2025
Effective from 1 January 2025, the amendment to the VAT Act introduced, among other things, changes concerning the correction of the tax base for bad debts. Let’s look at the changes in more detail.
Disguised tax inspection: SAC on the point of time of its actual commencement
The initiation of a tax inspection does not always have to be connected with a formal notification by the tax administrator, as legislation assumes. In its recent judgment, the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) noted that a tax inspection has…