As already announced the CEE VAT antifraud conference took place on November 19, 2015.
Officials from the ministries of finance and economy of five CEE countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia) have called for a Joint Approach to combat VAT fraud and increase VAT collection in a conference hosted today by PwC in Budapest.Read More »
I am delighted to invite you to the “Mind the VAT Gap! CEE VAT antifraud conference”organised by PwC.
The event takes place on November 19, 2015, in Budapest starting at 8:30 am.
The CEE VAT antifraud conferenceaims to bring together the public finance officials of the 5 CEE countries along with European Commission tax specialists, leading tax consultants and business representatives, in order to find the best ways to tackle the issue of VAT tax evasion throughout the CEE region. Read More »
Starting with the 1st of January 2016 all VAT payers registered in the Czech Republic will have to start submitting a new report – so called “control statement”. Control statement is a new report that all VAT payers registered in the Czech Republic will have to submit electronically in case they performed or received taxable supply with a place of supply in the Czech Republic after January 2016. Read More »
The list of commodities where reverse charge will be newly applicable was amended. Of interest are especially the exceptions. Exceptions in case of “raw or semi-processed metals” listed under the Customs Tariff nomenclature codes – Chapter 71 and Section XV should include (i.e. the local reverse-charge mechanism will not apply to) the following items: Read More »
Amendment of the Czech VAT Act should be valid as from 1 January 2015. The draft of the amendment is currently discussed in the second reading in The Chamber of Deputies. The list of the commodities that should be subject to local reverse charge will be governed by the governmental decree and is also currently under discussion.
A specialised team, the “Tax Cobra” was officially established in June 2014 under the joint effort of the Czech General Tax Directorate, General Customs Directorate and the Police Unit for Detection of Fraud and Financial Criminality to fight against VAT fraud in the Czech Republic.Read More »
As of January 2015, the Czech Republic plans to introduce a third VAT rate of 10% in addition to the existing standard VAT rate of 21% and the reduced rate of 15%. The new VAT rate will apply to drugs, books and baby food.
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About 100 selected tax officers from various parts of the Czech Republic are coming these days to “help Prague” and to support inspections of taxpayers falling within the scope of Prague Tax Offices. Those authorities have been known for struggling with a lack of time and staff for carry out limited or full tax inspections on a regular basis. As one would expect, this inspired plenty of businesses who on purpose registered their seat in Prague, which further worsened the issue.Read More »
The European Court of Justice published its judgement in an infringement procedure where the EU Commission brought several EU Member States to the Court for failure to comply with their obligations under the EU VAT Directive.
The actions relate to the special scheme for travel agents which is commonly referred to as TOMS (Tour Operators Margin Scheme) and which is relevant from an EU-wide VAT perspective. There has been some uncertainty Read More »
The Chamber of Deputies has approved the economic measures intended to keep the state budget deficit under three percent of gross domestic product for the next three years. The measures include an increase in the standard VAT rate from 20% to 21% and the reduced rate from 14% to 15%.
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