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Changes in social and medical insurance payment for entrepreneurs in 2020
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...
Important figures in 2020
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...
VAT on electronic services in EU. MOSS Scheme
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...
The place of cash in financial reports
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...
Preparation to a voluntary registration of a VAT payer
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...
A special kind of a VAT payer: identified person to VAT
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...
Minimum wages according to professions
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...
Living in the Czech Republic
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...
Taxes in the Czech Republic
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....