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 its publication contemplated therein are lapsed. This new, addressed as, indirect tax, with a tax rate of 3%, is to apply  to companies or groups that meet both the two thresholds mentioned in the Law, namely...

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 telecommunication sector did not infringe on the EU fundamental freedoms or Article 401 of the VAT Directive, and that the question regarding the prohibition of state aid was inadmissible. Vodafone is especially important a...

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, platform) involved in e-commerce transactions. These explanatory notes are meant to help online businesses and in particular SMEs to understand their VAT obligations arising from cross-border supplies to c...

Si ya era importante antes de la pandemia, el protagonismo del comercio electrónico como principal canal de venta de las empresas, con independencia de la actividad o tamaño de éstas, se ha convertido en un factor estratégico de supervivencia para una mayoría de sectores económicos.   La cuarta revolución industrial en la que dicha tendencia se enmarca, que no es sino una palabra para designar el efecto disruptivo que el uso exponencial y generalizado de las nuevas tecnologías en el día a día de...