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...

Although, as we mentioned in a former entry, no especial provisions have been adopted by the central Government as regards the extension of deadlines for the filing and payment of VAT returns, it must be remembered that companies operating in certain Spanish Autonomous Regions having full competences for the management of indirect taxes having to be declared in said territories, would benefit from the provisions that such regional administration may have adopted as a result of the COVID-19 crisi...

The Council of Ministers held Today has agreed to request from the Congress of Deputies authorization to extend the State of Alarm declared by Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14, until 00:00 hours on April 12 and will be subject to the same conditions established in Royal Decree 463/2020, of March 14 (as modified by Royal Decree 465/2020, of March 17). No specific additional measures have been adopted as regards the postponement of the deadlines to file and pay the VAT returns which remain the s...