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Last Updated: Friday 27 November 2020
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The Minister of Justice and Security has in response to the COVID-19 pandemic published an Act to amend the Public Health Act to provide for safe distancing and other rules of conduct.
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Gazette Number: 2020, 441
Notice Number: 441
Publication Date: 13 November 2020
Source: https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stb-2020-441.html
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Last Updated: Friday 8 May 2020
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The State Secretary for Finance has published a decree which implements tax measures in response to the coronavirus crisis and replaces a decree of the same name on which you were previously notified.
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Gazette Number: 26066
Publication Date: 8 May 2020
Effective Date: 8 May 2020
Source: https://www.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stcrt-2020-26066.html
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Last Updated: Monday 27 April 2020
Highlight:
The State Secretary for Finance has published a Decree that implements tax measures in response to the coronavirus crisis
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Gazette Number: 22293
Notice Number: 2020-6767
Publication Date: 24 April 2020
Effective Date: 24 April 2020
Source: https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stcrt-2020-23814.html
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Last Updated: Wednesday 8 April 2020
Regeling van de Minister van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid van 31 maart 2020, 2020-0000046630, tot vaststelling van een tijdelijke subsidieregeling tot tegemoetkoming in de loonkosten teneinde de werkgelegenheid onder buitengewone omstandigheden te behouden (Tijdelijke noodmaatregel overbrugging voor behoud van werkgelegenheid) [Regulation of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment of 31 March 2020, 2020-0000046630, establishing a temporary subsidy scheme for compensation of labor costs in order to preserve employment under exceptional circumstances (Temporary emergency measure bridging to preserve employment)]
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The Minister of Social Affairs and Employment has published the Regulation of the Minister of Social Affairs and Employment of 31 March 2020, 2020-0000046630, establishing a temporary subsidy scheme for compensation of labor costs in order to preserve employment under exceptional circumstances (Temporary emergency measure bridging to preserve employment) (the "Regulation").
The Regulation terminates the exemption from the prohibition of short-time working and introduces the Temporary Emergency Measure Bridging to Retain Employment (NOW) which:
-aims to make it possible, in times of acute and severe decline in the turnover of at least 20% employers, to keep employees employed as much as possible for the hours they worked before the serious fall occurred
-allows employers to receive a grant to pay labor costs through a subsidy for the wage costs of certain categories of employee
-allows temporary employment agencies to submit an application to keep their temporary employees employed
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Published in terms of Wet op de loonbelasting 1964 [Wage Tax Act 1964]
Gazette Number: 2020, 19874
Publication Date: 1 April 2020
Effective Date: 1 April 2020
Source: https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/uitgebreidzoeken
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