The government in a 28 August 2020 letter to the Lower House of parliament presented a relief and recovery package for businesses and workers in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The new package (“emergency package 3.0”) would follow on from the two previous emergency packages and would be based on three pillars:
The extension of the relief measures will take place under a (phased) tightening of conditions. An important part of the new package concerns the phasing out of the more flexible special deferral of payment policy for tax debts, including a payment arrangement for the accrued tax debt, and changes to several related measures.
The provisions in the emergency package 3.0 would address or include:
Read a September 2020 report prepared by the KPMG member firm in the Netherlands
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