The Anti-Crisis Shield 1.0 postponed the payment of the minimum commercial real estate tax for the months from March to May until July 20. However, shopping centre owners are wondering whether they have to pay this tribute at all for the period when their activity was top-down limited.
Mateusz Pietranek, tax advisor in the GWW CIT practice, comments in the article of Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily.
Tax offices use various tricks and laconic justifications to prolong proceedings and delay VAT refunds. Taxpayers cannot even predict when they will receive their money, since tax offices set themselves new deadlines, which they still do not meet. According to a judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court issued a few days ago, the mode of operation applied by the offices is correct.
The topic of today along with a commentary by Małgorzata Militz, GWW VAT expert, tax advisor, is published at Law.pl.
The article is available at: https://www.prawo.pl/podatki/przedluzanie-terminow-zwrotow-vat-decyzje-urzedow-skarbowych-i,500147.html
Grzegorz Karwatowicz, of counsel, an expert in public procurement law, obtained elimination by the National Board of Appeal of the prohibition to conclude a public procurement contract for our client Teatr Ludowy in Krakow. This is even a greater success due to the fact that, as the National Board of Appeal has many times ruled, elimination of the prohibition to conclude a contract is an exceptional institution which should not, in principle, be generally applicable.
We are proud to inform that GWW Law Firm is a legal partner of the VentilAid initiative, which supports the fight against the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic by using technology.
How does it work? A group of engineers and designers decided to create a device having a function of a respirator as a tool to combat the effects of the COVID-19 disease. Ventilaid is a device aimed at relieving medical staff and save as many patients as possible. Owing to its unique parameters, it can be quickly implemented for mass production and due to low costs – also in the poorest countries. VentilAid is currently at the stage of medical tests of a new respiratory prototype, cheap to manufacture, and widely available.
The GWW team of intellectual property practice and new technologies supports VentilAid in the field of copyright and industrial property rights.
Read more about the initiative: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=210059250226152
We have recently informed you of the impact of movement restrictions on the tax residence of individuals in many countries. You should be aware that this situation may also have an impact on the status of entities other than natural persons – especially those whose management was “grounded” in an unexpected place of stay, significantly different from the one planned at the beginning of the year.
An article written by Aldona Leszczyńska Mikulska and Jan Wnorowski from Private Client team at GWW on telfa.law is now available: https://www.telfa.law/news/tax-residency-during-lockdown-part-ii/
In the latest publication of the Media Law International's annual guide – Specialist Guide to the Global Leaders in Media Law Practice – GWW team was ranked in Tier 2 (another year in the row).
GWW experts distinguished in the ranking: Wojciech Krupa, Wacław Knopkiewicz and Michał Sękowski.
Media Law International about our practice: GWW is widely acknowledged to be one of Poland’s leading advisory practices. The firm acts for clients from film and broadcasting sectors and is praised by peers for its work in these fields. Lawyers include Wojciech Krupa, Wacław Knopkiewicz and Michał Sękowski who are among the firm’s media law specialists. The team advises on the film production and trading in television and marketing rights.
MLI guide covers firms and practitioners with media law expertise across 56 jurisdictions from all over the world.
More about MLI ranking: http://www.medialawinternational.com/page95.html
We would like to invite you to our subpage containing materials in which we explain current legal regulations aimed at helping companies to counteract the consequences of COVID-19.
You will find there legal alerts, clarifications of legal regulations, and articles by our experts, directly related to the situation that we are facing.
The new public procurement law introduces some partly new rules for calculating time limits in public procurement procedures. They require parties to be more scrupulous and – at least at the beginning of applying the same – to act with greater caution. Introduction of time limits calculated in hours is important innovation.
Marta Lipińska, a public procurement practice specialist, presents the new rules in Lexplorers.
http://lexplorers.pl/terminy-w-nowym-prawie-zamowien-publicznych/
Just before the May weekend, on 30 April this year, a first meeting of the Legal Group at the Branch of the Polish Association of Developers in Wrocław took place.
The issues touched upon during the meeting concerned administrative as well as court and administrative procedures during the coronavirus pandemic. The training was conducted by Joanna Sebzda-Załuska, attorney-at-law, managing partner of GWW. Anna Leszczyna, attorney-at-law, Deputy of the Poviat Building Supervision Inspector for the city of Wrocław, was a special guest .
Over 40 people attended the meeting held in the form of a webinar.
https://www.facebook.com/pzfdwroclaw/photos/a.162067030475795/3537010179648113/?type=3&theater
If a municipality waives certain amounts due to it from a company, such as a real estate tax, it will lose twice. It will not get the tax and will receive less money as part of a subsidy. This is the principle the government wants to introduce in the next version of the anti-crisis shield regulations. The poorest municipalities will lose the most on this change. On the other hand, the regulations that are already in force provide that a local government must pay VAT in the case of releasing tenants from rent. According to experts, this is absurd.
Despite the fact that a landlord cannot require a tenant to make payments of rent during the trade prohibition, it should, nevertheless, issue rent invoices on a regular basis during the trade prohibition, pay VAT on such invoices, and disclose revenues – Małgorzata Militz emphasizes.
A commentary by the VAT expert, Małgorzata Militz, can be found in today's article Prawo.pl: https://www.prawo.pl/podatki/umorzenie-podatkow-przez-gminy-a-subwencja-wyrownawcza,499950.html
