In brief
As businesses continue to grapple with the challenges related to COVID-19, many states are providing tax relief in the form of filing and payment deadline extensions.
Aufgrund der «ausserordentlichen Lage» hat der Bundesrat am 20. März 2020 auch im Bereich der Abgaben Massnahmen ergriffen und den befristeten Verzicht auf Verzugszinsen (Verordnung; SR 641.207.2) beschlossen.
Um von den Zahlungsaufschüben profitieren zu können, muss weiterhin ein schriftliches Gesuch für Zahlungserleichterungen nach Art. 90 MWSTG eingereicht werden. Die Gesuche sind weiterhin per Post oder Mail zuzustellen. Ein spezielles Formular oder sonstige zusätzliche Informationen sind nicht notwendig.
In order to ensure the services rendered to the users of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, an internal organisation is operated at the level of each department as of March 24th, 2020.
On Friday 13 March 2020, the Government proposed a series of urgent measures to reduce the financial consequences of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19). Below are the details. Note that these proposals will be considered by the Parliament and that there may be changes.
Provisional instructions for requesting deferrals in accordance with the rules of liquidity facilitation for SMEs and self-employed workers as established in Royal Decree-Law 7/2020, of 12 March
Globally, the coronavirus is gaining more and more grip and COVID-19 is starting to paralyse society and the economy. Government bodies and other organisations are taking measures to prevent any further spread.
The Croatian Government presented number of measures to help the economy with the crisis resulting from the COVID-19 epidemic and proposed amendments to relevant laws in order to create legal framework for the intended measures. Some of them were already adopted in the parliament today.
The following measurements were introduced by the Hungarian government in the government regulation Nr 47/2020 in response to the coronavirus-situation (COVID-19) effective as of 19 March 2020:
The Maltese Government has announced a number of measures in a bid to encourage retention of employees and alleviate imminent cash flow and liquidity concerns that are expected to be faced by certain local businesses in the light of the COVID-19 outbreak.
These initiatives are mainly targeted at those businesses that are suffering a significant downturn in their turnover as a result of the economic constraints arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and, as a result face substantial cash flow difficulties.
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