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22
Mar
2021
COVID Business Support Measures

SUPPORT FOR BUSINESS SOLVENCY IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC (March 2021)...

3
Jul
2020
NEW DEADLINES FOR THE LEGALIZATION OF ACCOUNTING BOOKS AND THE DEPOSIT OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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19
May
2020
Royal Decree-law 18/2020 on Social Measures in Defence of Employment

The duration of ERTEs (Temporary Redundancy Plans) due to force majeure derived from COVID-19 will no longer be linked to the duration of the state of alarm, rather they will be extended while the causes that impede the restart of their activity still exist, and under no circumstances beyond 30 June 2020, all of the aforementioned without...

16
Apr
2020
State of alert: New tax measures - Extension of deadlines

 

To whom this extension shall apply?

To those taxpayers whose turnover would not have exceeded 600,000 euros in 2019.

For those taxpayers who are not required to file VAT returns, the Net Turnover for Corporate Tax or, if applicable, for Personal Income Tax, shall be taken as reference.

Ø  What is meant by Turnover?

It is a concept which is applied in the scope of application of VAT whose figure is determined by the amount of every invoices issued by the companies during the calendar year except from those regarding sales of real estate, sales of investment assets (Group 2 PGC) and any financial...

31
Mar
2020
NEW EMPLOYMENT MEASURES TO MITIGATE THE EFFECTS TRIGGERED BY COVID-19

1.   Measures to suspend or to reduce working hours

 

Dismissal regarding the situation triggered by COVID-19 shall not apply anymore. Any company experiencing economic, technical, organizational or production problems of force majeure due to the COVID-19 health crisis shall not enforce neither collective dismissal nor objective dismissal. Otherwise, dismissal shall be considered as unfair dismissal or as null and void dismissal.

 

 

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19
Mar
2020
URGENT MEASURES COVID-19

-INDEX-

I. SUSPENSION OF CERTAIN ACTIVITES (Pag. 2)

II. LABOUR RELATIONS AND SELF-EMPLOYED PEOPLE (Pag. 3)

❖ Isolated workers – Exceptional consideration as a situation assimilated to a workplace accident

❖ Adaptation of workers' working conditions

❖ Suspension of self-employed quotas...

18
Mar
2020
URGENT MEASURES REGARDING THE CRISIS TRIGGERED BY COVID-19

URGENT MEASURES REGARDING THE CRISIS TRIGGERED BY COVID-19

 

 

I.          LABOUR LAW:

 

Exceptional consideration as a situation assimilated to a workplace accident of periods of isolation or illness of workers due to the COVID-19 virus

 

On March 10, 2020, Royal Decree Law 6/2020 was...