The date by which the intermediaries (e.g. lawyers), subject to the obligation of the contractual secrecy or legal professional privilege, must notify taxpayers to comply with the obligation to report to the Tax Authority ("AT"), on cross-border tax planning arrangements implemented between 25 June 2018 and 30 June 2020, has been postponed from 1 December 2020 to 15 January 2021.
On November 13, the Portuguese Data Protection Authority (Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados or CNPD) issued guidelines on the processing of health data regulated under Decree no. 8/2020, dated November 8, in particular, on the processing of health data carried out within the scope of (i) body temperature measurements in controlling access to workplaces, services or public institutions, education and commercial establishments, cultural or sports spaces, means of transport, residential buildings, healthcare establishments, prison establishments or centers of education and (ii) the performance of SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tests to the data subjects listed in the aforementioned decree.
Following the declaration of state of emergency, decreed on November 6, 2020, the Decree No. 8/2020, of November 8, was published in the Official Gazette, regulating the implementation of the state of emergency declared by the President:
In the wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant increase in debt held by both consumers and companies. Over the coming years, we expect to see a large number of debt and distressed asset deals. In this viewpoint, Garrigues provides in this documentan analysis of the debt market situation and trends in Latin America, Spain and Portugal, where there is a clear move toward greater sophistication in these deals.
Pension fund regulations may be an incentive or deterrent when considering establishing operations in a country. This is why it is important to understand the new rules and situation of current legislation on the subject in various jurisdictions. Below we examine the current situation in Mexico, Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Brazil and Chile.
The obligation to mention the single document code (ATCUD) on all invoices and other tax relevant documents was postponed from 1 January 2021 to 1 January 2022, set forth in article 7 (3) of Decree-Law no. 28/2019 of 15 February, through Order no. 412/2020-XXII of the Secretary of State for Tax Affairs, taking into consideration the efforts that taxpayers have to make in adapting the necessary means for processing those documents to these new rules, especially in the existing pandemic context.
The complexity of international operations, as well as the existence of multiple contracts and the plurality of parties, often makes it necessary to involve third parties in the arbitration proceedings. Therefore, it is important to take this aspect into account when drafting the dispute resolution clause, as well as when choosing the applicable arbitration rules.
