The first Coronavirus Response Investment Initiative package adopted by the EU concentrated on the immediate mobilisation of structural funds, to allow for a prompt response to the crisis. A new package complements the first one by introducing extraordinary flexibility to allow that all non-utilised support from the European Structural and Investment Funds can be mobilised to the fullest. This flexibility is provided for through: transfer possibilities across the three cohesion policy funds (the...

Unlike to the "no action policy" of the Spanish central government, as regards VAT obligations under the covid-19 crisis, when speaking of the regional indirect tax of the Canary Islands (the so called IGIC), the autonomous government are adopting specific measures affecting the managing of such indirect tax. We already commented the extension of deadlines for IGIC returns, form 420, for the  1st quarter 2020 that are to be filed until June 1, 2020 (the original deadline being April 20, 2020. Ho...

Non-subscribers to the database of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) will be granted free access to its daily Tax News Service reports related to the COVID-19 pandemic for the next few months at its site, which can be visited by clicking here.    

"La dirección general aduanera europea, DG TAXUD, ha recordado fórmulas existentes en la legislación que permitirían ser un equivalente de exención de las garantías aduaneras y otras nuevas iniciativas que propone para compensar las deudas en plena crisis del Covid-19. Así se desprende de las respuestas que ha remitido la DG TAXUD a las cuestiones presentadas por el CLECAT, a petición del Consejo General de Agentes de Aduanas que lleva denunciando las graves consecuencias económicas que supone p...

The website of the Spanish Official Gazette has included a special section that contains a compilation of the legislative COVID measures which have been adopted up to now by the Government. This section is to be periodicaly updated and the registered users can suscribe to a warning service update. The compilation is accessible at the site: file:///C:/Users/mpalg/Downloads/BOE-355_Crisis_Sanitaria_COVID-19.pdf  

As commented in former entries, regardless of the declaration of alarm status in the country by the Spanish Government no specific postponement measures have been adopted as regards the filing of the periodical VAT returns or its payment for the duration of the COVID crisis which threatens to be long. Neither the extension of such status until the next 12th of April decided last Saturday nor the decision to stop any non essential activity adopted on Sunday have modified the described taxpayers s...