VAT refunds post-Brexit
The General Financial Directorate has issued information on VAT refunds to UK entities after Brexit.
Brexit: Protocol on UK-EU social security coordination
After endless negotiations between the UK and the EU, a deal was struck at the turn of 2020, avoiding a hard Brexit. Among other things, the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement makes it possible to continue applying some EU social security rules…
Providing financial services from the UK post-Brexit
The end of the Brexit transition period has had a huge impact on UK companies providing any kind of financial services. From 1 January 2021, it is no longer possible to enjoy the benefits of the freedom of establishment and freedom to provide…
VAT after Brexit deal
On Christmas Eve, after lengthy negotiations that were very tense up to the last moment, the UK finally struck an agreement on its future relationship with the EU. For EU companies, this means that preparations made so far will not be wasted. Below…
Effects of Brexit on income tax in 2021
Although the United Kingdom already left the EU as of 31 January 2020, the transition period during which the United Kingdom is still viewed as an EU member state will end on the last day of 2020. It seems unlikely that the transition period will be…
Customs procedure post-Brexit
Brexit is drawing unstoppably closer, even though the coronavirus pandemic seems to have upstaged it for now. Early next year, however, the UK's withdrawal will hit us with full force. Which is why British experts are trying to shed light on at…
Brexit: What will happen to social security and health insurance in 2021?
The end of 2020 will also bring the end of the transition period under the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the UK from the EU. During the transition period between 1 February 2020 and 31 December 2020, the United Kingdom is being treated as if it…
Business with Northern Ireland after Brexit
The European Commission has prepared a draft of changes to the VAT rules applicable to trading with Northern Ireland. The draft has been submitted as part of the preparations for Brexit at the end of this year. The new rules adjust the existing…