One of the aspects of the Brexit which will have a significant practical implication is how to recover the input VAT which non-resident UK companies operating in other member states may incur since the 1st January 2020, when there is no local VAT charged and, as a result, there are no periodical...
The UK has left the EU and at the end on the transitory period on the 31st of December 2020 it will leave the EU single market and customs union. As a result, from 1 January 2021 the rules for trading with the UK will change for EU companies trading with this country, which has lead its tax...
As the end of the transitory period contemplated in the Withdrawal Agreement approaches, the Spanish Customs authorities have issued its Customs management Informative Note number NI GA 27/2020 of November 3, where they give instructions about the impact of Brexit on the use of the EORI numbers...
The Spanish Customs Tax Authority has published a note to remind companies that, as per next November 4th 2020, they must be “established in the EU” in order to appear as exporter in an EU export declaration (SAD) before the Spanish Customs. In doing so the Spanish Customs authorities are so...
Accessible at the website of the European Commission there is "My Trade Assistant", a tool that ombines existing tools such as the Market Access Database, the EU Trade Helpdesk and much more in a single tool which is mainly addressed for the use of small business looking to internationalise....
Law 4/2020 of 15 October regulating de Tax on certain digital services has been published at the Official Gazette of 16 October 2020. According to the Sixth Final provision and regardless of our comments below, the new Law is to come into force the 16th January 2021 after the 3 months since...
The European Commission has made available a search engine connected to its VAT Rate Database accessible through its site. The engine allows searches using the following criteria: Countries. Dates. Categories of goods or services. CN codes. CPA codes. You can access this resource at this link.
Portugal Makes it Mandatory to Declare the SAF-T Accounting File
The CFE ECJ Task Force has prepared an Opinion Statement on the CJEU decision of 3 March 2020 in Case C-75/18, Vodafone Magyarország Mobil Távközlési Zrt., on progressive turnover taxes. The Court held that the imposition of the Hungarian progressive turnover-based tax on the...
On 30 September 2020, the Commission published Explanatory Notes on the new VAT e-commerce rules. They contain extensive explanations and clarifications on these new rules including practical examples on how to apply the rules if you are a supplier or an electronic interface (e.g. marketplace,...
The Package for Fair and Simple Taxation recently passed by the European Commission which contains three elements: Action Plan for fair and simple taxation supporting the recovery; revision of the Directive on Administrative Cooperation (DAC 7); and communication on Tax Good Governance in...
The Official Journal of the European Union of the 27th of July 2020 publishes the Commission Decision (EU) 2020/1101 of 23 July 2020 that amends its former Decision (EU) 2020/491 on relief from import duties and VAT exemption on importation granted for goods needed to combat the effects of the...
