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Czech Republic: A new tool in the fight against corruption – bribers who report a case of passive corruption may under certain circumstances escape punishment Until recently, both promising and actually giving a bribe constituted a criminal offense, and as such always had to be prosecuted by law enforcement, even

Czech Republic: Amendment to the Senate's legislative measure concerning the property transfer tax takes effect as of 1 November 2016 A long-awaited amendment concerning the property transfer tax has become law upon its promulgation in the Collection of Laws on 5 August 2016 (Amendment No. 254/2016 Coll. to the Senate's

Lithuania: bnt attorneys-at-law supported the German insolvency administrator on sale of business of the insolvent German Kurz group. Lawyers from bnt attorney-at-law’s M&A and insolvency practices advised and represented German insolvency office holder Martin Mucha from German law firm Grub Brugger & Partner and his team in the successful sale

Lithuania: Additional administrative burden from 1 October 2016. Registers to be kept by all taxable persons. We remind you that the STI’s order to submit registers of VAT purchase and sales invoices will come into force on 1 October 2016. Registers must be submitted to the STI by taxable persons

Lithuania: bnt attorneys-at-law successfully defended Commerzbank, a leading German bank, before the Lithuanian Supreme Court. The dispute concerned complex counter-guarantee and pledge relations between two commercial banks. The claimant, Lithuanian Ukio bankas, against which insolvency proceedings had been opened, requested the return of security deposits that had been pledged to