Prague, 12 May 2008 February 2020 – Following the initiative of the pirate MEMBER Tomáš Martínka, the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic has incorporated its amendment extending the deadline for submitting an electronic tax return by one month from the current three months to four, in the tax package My taxes.

Martínek tabled this change in the form of an amendment already when the tax package was debated in 2018, when the votes of government Members were rejected. The extension of the deadline is intended to encourage greater use of the electronic form of confession, which is bureaucraticly less demanding. Martínek was partly inspired abroad, where similar legislation applies. "The extended period for filing a tax return applies e.g. to the date of the tax return. in the UK, Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Cyprus or Hungary. In neighbouring Austria, the deadline for electronic income tax returns is 30. This is two months longer than in the case of paper submission. This new adjustment will improve the comfort of taxpayers and save the state's resources," adds Martínek. For the first time, the electronic tax return should be filed within an extended period of 2020, the deadline for electronic returns should be until the end of April 2021. The Senate will now comment on the amendment to the law.In the Czech Republic, one of the shortest deadlines within the EU for filing a tax return is currently one of the shortest deadlines within the EU. Therefore, some ordinary tax payers may have difficulty completing all necessary documents, such as the tax code at this interval. confirmation from multiple employers (including abroad, where other deadlines apply), confirmation for the use of discounts or concessions, supporting materials for all annexes, including business financial statements, etc. The share of electronically filed tax returns is low in the Czech Republic. Paper tax returns burden tax administrator workers, increasing the demands on the state budget. There is also a higher error rate due to the rewriting of the data contained in the tax return from paper to the system. The advantage of using electronic tax return is to minimize these errors, to allow better communication with the authorities or easier monitoring of the processing status. Overall, a positive incentive to fill out an electronic tax return leads to an acceleration of the whole process, a reduction in administrative costs and simplification of archiving. At the same time, the proposal does not bring any negatives for existing taxpayers who do not want to take advantage of the possibilities of electronic filing.