Pascal Saint-Amans, the Director of the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration at the OECD, announced that the negotiation timeline for new digital taxation proposals has been impacted by the pandemic. Previously, governments were expected to agree on a set of policies by early July in order to have an implementation plan by the end of 2020. The timing of an agreement has now shifted to October, although Saint-Amans said that the end-of-year deadline for the overall project is still in place. ...

The European Commission has decided today to postpone the entry into force of two EU taxation measures to take account of the difficulties that businesses and Member States are facing at the moment with the Coronavirus crisis. First, the Commission has proposed to postpone the entry into application of the VAT e-commerce package by 6 months. These rules will apply as of 1 July 2021 instead of 1 January 2021, giving Member States and businesses more time to prepare for the new VAT e-commerce rule...

Royal Law-Decree 14/2020 of 12 April, (published at the Official Gazette of the 15th of April) establishes an extension for the filing and payment of those returns with pending deadlines at the date of its publication, which will be extended until the 20th of May.   So, the new deadline for VAT returns (recapitulative returns could also benefit) corresponding to April or the first quarter of 2020 will be the said 20th of May. As an exception, for the case that the system adopted for the payment ...

Royal Law-Decree 7/2020 of 12 March, (published at Official Gazette of the 13th March) adopting economic measures to answer the impact of the COVID-19 in the economy  contemplated some specialities as regards the postponement regime of those tax debts which dead-lines for filing and payment occur between the 13rd of March and the 30th of May. The specialities for those companies entitled to benefit from this special postponement regime are the following: The postponement is not dependent of the ...

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...