Blog about taxes

To work with Uber in the Czech Republic, it is necessary to fulfill a number of obligations:  1. To register as an individual entrepreneur:  the provision of transport services is an economic activity and is subject to registration. This type of activity can be registered as the individual entrepreneurship (OSVČ) or a firm and should...

Due to the epidemiological situation in the country, the Parliament of the Czech Republic adopted a number of measures that will help entrepreneurs survive the decline in their economic activity in 2020. The changes will be related to social and medical insurance advance payments as well as to the terms of submitting profit reports for...

The new 2020 year brought a lot of changes and updates. Some of them took effect since the 1st of January, 2020; others will come into force after the 1st of May, 2020. We will briefly describe the main news in this article. The increase of a minimum wage since 01.01.2020 This change will influence...

What is Electronic Service? Four years ago, the European Union has adopted changes to VAT place of supplies rules in relation to electronic supplies, including telecommunication and broadcasting. There are three types of electronic services: Telecommunication services used for the transmission and reception of signals through wires, optical or electromagnetic systems. This can be the services...

We will describe a turnover between the Czech Republic and other EU countries in this article. Although the same rules and regulations apply to all the EU countries, there are some nuances in the legislation of a particular country. Today we will look at the situation from the position of the Czech Republic in relation to...

Value-added tax (DPH – Daň z přidané hodnoty in Czech) is one of the most important taxes in the taxing system. It is deducted from every item or a service merchandized in the country. This type of tax can be compared with a bearing wall during the construction of the state budget. All companies registered...

We already described ways of obligatory registration of a physical or a legal person entrepreneur as a VAT payer in our blog post. Here we will introduce one more way to register as a VAT payer, specifically as an identified person (Czech editor’s note ‘identifikovana osoba’, hereinafter only identified person). What is it and what...

Do you plan to rent your apartment/house out but still have concerns regarding taxes? Then this material is exactly what you need. In this article, we will describe such a type of rental property, when an apartment owner rents it out as an individual without opening a business license. First, let’s turn to the tax...

Tax policy of the Czech Republic regarding cryptocurrencies, mining cryptocurrencies and selling merchandise and services for cryptocurrencies. All the mentioned points are described in this article. Methodological introduction. The concept of «cryptocurrency» Currently, there are more than 1000 virtual or digital «currencies» also called cryprocurrencies (“kryptoměny (KM)” in Czech) in the world. The most popular ones...

Who exactly should make the advanced payments on income taxes in the Czech Republic, what are the payments due dates and what are the risks for ones who ignore the obligation to pay? We will shed the light on these questions in this article. The tax obligations for some tax-payers are not limited by submitting...

This is about tax benefits for children and changes in providing the tax bonus. This important news was introduced by the Czech Ministry of Finance along with the revised Law on State Social Support. It means that parents will be able to save on income taxes in 2018 more than they did in the previous...

The maximum tax benefit that can be used by parents whose children attend preschool institutions in 2017 was increased to 1100 korunas for each child. The maximum discount in 2017 was 11 000 korunas, comparing to 9900 korunas available for taxpayers in 2016. When completing the Declaration on Income Tax from the Population for 2017...