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The EU’s economic package is a broad and ambitious plan to recover and implement reform.

The amended EU directive for posted workers that enters into force on 30 July 2020, introduces new requirements for employers who send their employees to provide services temporarily in another EU member state.

In this environment local implementation of the rules & reporting deadlines should be monitored.

On 15 July the European Union's General Court issued its decision in the State aid case concerning Apple in Ireland, finding that Ireland did not grant illegal State aid to Apple.

David Duffy, KPMG Indirect Tax Partner, summarises some recent ECJ decisions, including, Dong Yang Electronics on the meaning of the term “fixed establishment” and BlackRock Investment Management Limited on the VAT treatment of outsourced fund management services.

Different jurisdictions and companies are being affected by the COVID-19 outbreak in different ways and according to various timescales, including Ireland. Tax is one tool which governments have to address the situation.

Details of webcasts on the impact of EU Mandatory Disclosure rules on firms operating in the Financial Services Sector and across a range of industries hosted by KPMG Global.

In this session, we are joined by senior officials from HMRC, the ATO and the IRS to consider what taxpayers and tax authorities are currently dealing with, how they might adapt to the new reality, and what taxpayers might expect as they look forward.

The European Commission announced proposals to postpone the entry into force of two EU taxation measures in response to the difficulties that businesses and EU Member States are facing due to COVID-19.