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Portugal postpones MDR reporting deadlines for six months

13 August 2020

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Tax Alerts, Information Reporting, Legislation & Policy, National/Federal Taxation

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Portugal, European Union

Executive summaryOn 11 August 2020, the Portuguese Government enacted legislation postponing for six months the reporting deadlines under the domestic law that implements the European Union (EU) Directive on the mandatory disclosure and exchange of cross-border tax arrangements (referred to as DAC6 or the Directive).This provision has been enacted in the context of the transposition into Portuguese law of the EU Directive 2020/876, of 24 June, which enables Member States to defer, up to six months, the time limits for the filing and exchange of information on cross-border arrangements foreseen in DAC6.Detailed discussionUnder DAC6, taxpayers and intermediaries are required to report cross-border...