Spain
01-27-2021
Since January 13, 2021, employers have been required to fully comply with the new equality obligations, following the entry into force of Royal Decree 901/2020, on equality plans and their registration. Moreover, measures aimed at reducing the pay gap, as contemplated in Royal Decree 902/2020, on equal pay for women and men, will start to apply from April 14, 2021, six months after its publication in the Official State Gazette.
01-27-2021
Royal Decree-Law 2/2021, of January 26, 2021, on reinforcing and consolidating social protection measures to defend employment has been published following the IV Social Protection Agreement to Defend Employment reached between the government, Spanish unions UGT and CC.OO. and employers’ associations CEOE and CEPYME.
01-27-2021
Managing and administrative bodies of business and civil legal entities may as an exception in 2021 hold meetings by phone or remotely or take action by written consent without holding a meeting, even where not expressly permitted by their bylaws.
01-26-2021
The judges of the Commercial Courts of Barcelona have released a set of basic guidelines for conducting Spanish insolvency pre-packs in that forum, by introducing the feature -of optional use- of the silent administrator. The guidelines were approved in the context of a seminar organized on January 20th.
12-31-2020
Law 11/2020, of December 30, 2020, the General Budget Law for 2021, (LPGE) was published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) on December 31, 2020. It includes numerous measures related to various taxes, which are summarized below.
01-20-2021
In this article we describe the factors determining the tax residence of individuals and legal entities or the existence of permanent establishments in the main Latin American countries, and in Spain and Portugal, along with the interpretation methods that in some cases the tax authorities of these countries have issued to take into account (or not) distortions caused by the health crisis.
01-08-2021
For some years the tax authorities and the courts have upheld as a general rule that late-payment interest was not deductible for corporate income tax purposes before the current Corporate Income Tax Law (Law 27/2014, of November 27, 20109) whereas it was deductible after that law came into force. The National Appellate Court has now come to the opposite conclusion.
01-14-2021
The decision adopted on October 1, 2020 by commercial judges practicing in Barcelona, Tarragona, Gerona and Lérida states that insolvency receivers, owners or lawyers must report to the Directorate General for Industry of the Catalan Generalitat government regarding any companies with operating business units that have given a pre-insolvency notice, are in insolvency proceedings or other difficult situations, remotely on a standard form with the company’s main particulars.