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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...

The  Package for Fair and Simple Taxation recently passed by the European Commission which contains three elements: Action Plan for fair and simple taxation supporting the recovery;revision of the Directive on Administrative Cooperation (DAC 7); andcommunication on Tax Good Governance in the EU and beyond. the article reviewed focuss in the first element. The Tax Action Plan covers a number of taxes but there are a number of measures that particularly focus on value-added tax. Source: Bloomsberg...