The impact of the Corona crisis on society and public life in Germany remains enormous.
Viele internationale Organisationen haben Schwierigkeiten, die geltenden Datenschutzbestimmungen analog der Gesetzgebung in allen Ländern, in denen sie tätig sind, einzuhalten. Das Whitepaper „Privacy Insights 2020“ hilft Ihnen, mehr Klarheit in das Thema zu bringen. Das weltweit agierende...
The results of our last survey - only six months ago – showed that European business leaders were planning to pursue aggressive growth, driven by investments in technology, talent and product innovation. Those priorities have now noticeably changed. Organisations even started rethinking their...
On 12 June 2020, the Federal Cabinet adopted the key points of the bridging relief programme “Temporary support for small and medium businesses that have had to shut down to a significant extent or in full as a result of the coronavirus crisis".
On 29 November 2019, the Bundesrat gave its consent to a law regulating tax incentives for research and development (Forschungszulagengesetz (FZulG) – research incentives act), on the basis of which annual funding of research and development activities in the amount of up to EUR 1,000,000 is...
In its Session on 29 June 2020, the German Bundesrat (upper house of parliament) passed the so-called economic stimulus package, which includes, among other measures, the temporary reduction of VAT rates as of 1 July 2020.
The Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) published a second, revised version of the draft letter on the temporary reduction of German VAT rates on 23 June 2020.
This newsletter summarises recent tax developments of international interest across the world. In this issue, read our latest on the European Union's DAC6 obligations, notification of uncertain tax treatment by large businesses in the United Kingdom, new 'Open innovation tax incentive' in Japan...