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In the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic, new measures were approved to enable companies to increase their cash flows. Payments on account (FY2021) Taxpayers who are cooperatives or have obtained in the 2020 fiscal period a turnover up to the maximum limit set for their classification as medium-sized enterprises (i.e...

Garrigues analyzes the most important new legislation that companies need to be aware of in the coming days in the various areas of business law. The new ICO guarantee facility, the extension of ERTE temporary layoff procedures and the restrictions on the distribution of dividends at companies that have used these procedures, the explanatory guidelines of the Public Employment Service (SEPE) and the General Social Security Treasury, the instructions of the Ministry of Health for the performance of diagnostic tests or phase 2 of the scaling-down process are some of the matters that need to be watched at the moment...

We analyze Royal Decree-Law 16/2020, of April 28, 2020, published in the April 29 edition of the Official State Gazette (BOE), adopting procedural and organizational measures to confront COVID-19 (RDL 16/2020). And entering into force on April 30, 2020 (the day after its publication in the Official State Gazette). The provisions in RDL 16/2020 will also be applicable to any procedural activities that will be carried out on or after the date of its entry into force, irrespective of the date of commencement of the proceeding in which they occur, except for any that have a specified time period in the royal decree-law itself...

Garrigues analyzes the measures introduced by Royal Decree-Law 11/2020, from every angle of business law: corporate/commercial contracts, tax, labor and employment, restructuring and insolvency, procedures and administrative law.   The April 1, 2020 edition of the Spanish Official State Gazette (BOE), published Royal Decree-Law 11/2020 of March 31, 2020, adopting urgent additional measures in the social and economic sphere to confront COVID-19 (RDL 11/2020), which also amends Royal Decree-Law 8/2020, of March 17, 2020, to correct and adjust a few issues that had raised doubts in that decree-law...

The global health alert triggered by the spread of the new coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19, is creating great challenges for companies. Governments around the world are tackling the situation by approving drastic measures to try to mitigate the effects of the health crisis first and the economic crisis second. In this context, at Garrigues we have put together – from the standpoint of all of the practice areas of business law – an overview of the key issues that companies in Spain should take into account in the coming days and weeks...