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Are you employed in the Czech Republic? The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs informs regarding your obligations during the COVID-19 outbreak. First, it is recommended that you become familiar with the official Czech Ministry of Health point of view and follow the letter of the law which considers several scenarios for every full-time employee....

Minimum wage — 14.600, — CZK The size of minimum deductions for health insurance from citizens without income — 1.971, — korunas The average salary for calculating pensions is 34.835, — CZK Minimum business deductions for 2020: Social insurance — 2.544, — CZK (a new amount of contributions is paid starting from April 2020, after...

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...

Despite the fact that the number of transactions carried out in cash among Czech companies and entrepreneurs is decreasing rapidly, they still take place. We live in a digital era ruled by the same digital money, however today we are going to describe the role of cash in financial reporting and accounting, the limits on...

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...

Another wave of increase in the minimum wages in the Czech Republic for all categories will influence not only 150 000 employees, but also, for instance, recipients of the tax discounts or private entrepreneurs who make minimum mortgage payments for health insurance. Reasoning The minimum wage at the beginning of 2019 will increase for the...

Minimum wages in the Czech Republic were increased to 12 200 CZK in 2018. An increase in this value naturally leads to an increase in minimum possible deductions for medical insurance. They are equal 1647 korunas now. Even if an employee works under the contract on a part-time employment and earns 2000 or 3000 korunas...

The Czech Republic is one of the most comfortable countries in the European Union to move to, to do business and to live in. The Czech language belongs to the same Slavic group as Russian does; the Czech Republic is used to expats (every 14th citizen is a foreigner); the rights of the foreigners and...

The country took a medium place of the tax rate level among the countries of the European Union. Its effective taxation system for entrepreneurs allows paying 10% per year. The Czech Republic is a perfect, friendly arena for medium and small businesses from the points of comfortable and cost-effective taxation system and reasonable accounting service....

Doing Business is a research annually conducted by the World Bank aimed to study the simplicity of performing business in the developed countries. This research has been conducted for 15 years already. It spots the states attractive for doing business based on the certain criteria: convenience of tax system, accounting cost, market possibilities and development...