Preparation of financial statements and corporate income tax, recommencement of time periods, remote trials, gradual return to workplaces, insolvency proceedings and compliance with criminal law

Los plazos administrativos se reanudarán el próximo 1 de junio, mientras que los plazos procesales y sustantivos lo harán el 4 de junio, tal y como aparece contemplado en el BOE del 23 de mayo de 2020.

New guarantee facility, extension of ERTE temporary layoff procedures, effects of the crisis on transfer pricing, return to judicial activity and ‘shields’ for businesses.

Esta semana cabe destacar la nueva línea de avales, la prórroga de los ERTE, los efectos de la crisis en los precios de transferencia, la vuelta de la actividad judicial y los posibles ‘escudos’ para empresas en dificultades.

The Government has published the COVID-19 Response (Further Management Measures) Legislation Bill (the Bill), an omnibus bill containing amendments (both temporary and permanent) to several acts. These amendments aim to both assist organisations in effectively managing the “immediate impacts of the response to COVID-19”, as well as mitigating some of the pandemic’s “unnecessary and potentially longer-term impacts on society”.

Phase 1 of the ‘scaling-down’ process, third tranche of guarantees, extension of ERTE temporary layoffs, potential delay in the application of VAT directives and of DAC6, and measures to support the cultural sector

Las empresas deben estar atentas esta semana a la fase 1 de la ‘desescalada’, el tercer tramo de avales, la prórroga de los ERTE, el posible retraso en la aplicación de directivas de IVA y de la DAC6 y las medidas de apoyo al sector cultural.

Esta semana abordamos la reapertura al público de establecimientos, los efectos del RDL 16/2020 en materia procesal, concursal y tributaria, las medidas laborales ante la ‘desescalada’ y las novedades en trámites administrativos

For another week running, Garrigues examines the key legal issues that companies should be aware of to continue forward in the current context.

High Court provides guidance on voluntary administration and creditors’ meetings under COVID-19 Alert Level 4

A recent decision of the High Court provides helpful guidance for insolvency practitioners on how aspects of the voluntary administration regime should operate in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.