The Czech Republic is going to introduce a new VAT rate into its VAT legislation with effect from 1 January 2015.
On 6 November, the president of the Czech Republic signed the amendment to the current VAT law introducing a VAT rate of 10% from 1 January 2015. As a result of this, the Czech VAT law will have two reduced VAT rates.
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The Czech virtual currency, Czech Crown Coin (officially named by the authors “CZC”) which started the distribution of the pre-mined CZC in August 2014, is distributing a next set of 100,000 CZC to the first 1,000 EU based individuals who have registered and obtained the so called “myID” via the official website of CZC. This should increase the amount of CZC in the circulation as well as to support its usage and importance on the global level.
The new Czech virtual currency, Czech Crown Coin (officially named by the authors “CZC”) was for the first time offered to the public this week (Tuesday, 19th August) at noon, as part of a press conference held by its founders. The interest of the public in purchasing CZC was bigger than expected. The pre-mined amount released in the initial edition of 100,000 CZC was sold out within nine and half hours, whereby a third of this limited amount was sold already within the first hour! It is planned that within the next days, an additional set of 100,000 CZC will be offered to the public. After these ten days (on Friday, 29 August) an exchange platform will be opened on the official website of CZC.
Another virtual currency was “borne” today (17 July 2014) at noon. A Czech Crown Coin (the abbreviation used by the authors is “CZC”) as it is called, is established. The announced amount of coins is 100 million and the currency will be, similarly to other virtual currencies, mined. The mining website was opened at the same moment. Half of the total volume of CZCs has been already pre-mined, the other half should be mined within the next 4 to 10 years. The distribution of a limited number of free-of-charge coins to registered Czech citizens is announced to start in the first half of September 2014.
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Some time ago, we have announced that Finland and Czech Republic are planning to increase their VAT rates on 1 January 2013. This has indeed come to fruition as reported; both countries have increased all their VAT rates by 1% as of today morning.
Some more info can be found here and here. Please remember, Cyprus also plans to increase its VAT rates soon.
P.S. and without being cynical in any way: We wish you all a happy and most successful 2013!
A number of important VAT changes are (probably) due to take place in Czech Republic on 1 January 2013, including a 1% increase in VAT rates to 15% and 21% respectively. The changes have still to be approved by the respective legislative bodies.
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