If you worked abroad, you have paid a part of your income as a tax advance. Actually, your employer paid this on your behalf directly to the tax office. Tax “advance” is the keyword here. Your employer deducts every month some percentage, as set by the tax law in a foreign country. But, at the end of the year, it will be clear that you have not worked for the entire year, or had a low income (and thus, were not supposed to pay the tax), or various tax discounts could be used in your case. This is the reason why your tax paid is higher than what you were actually supposed to pay. You can correct this by filing a tax return and asking for the overpaid tax back. In a lot of countries around the world, this is a possibility for any employee. What documents do I need? Every country has its own type of earning document. For example in Poland it is PIT11 or in Germany -Lohnsteuerbescheinigung. But this is the main document needed. Sometimes you will also need to attach your Personal income statement. You can get it in your tax office or use Neotax service...
The regular test of public emergency sirens in the Czech Republic will not take place this week, the country’s fire service said on Monday. It was decided by the Director-General of the Fire and Rescue Service, Vladimír Vlček, because of the situation in Ukraine. He wants to avoid the possible panic that the sirens could cause. “The reason for this decision is an effort to prevent unwanted panic among the public, also concerning citizens from Ukraine who are seeking safety in the Czech Republic,” the fire service said. “There are currently 200,000 citizens of Ukraine living in the Czech Republic. Others are fleeing Putin’s aggression to us. We do not want to remind them of the horror they have left in their homes with sirens,“ added Interior Minister Vít Rakušan (STAN), who welcomed the decision. Ukraine is facing air strikes after being invaded by Russia, among other things, and residents have repeatedly encountered the sound of sirens in recent days. This is not the first time the regular siren test has been canceled. The sirens remained silent during the floods of 2009 and 2013. They also did not sound in 2010, during the visit of the US and Russian presidents,...
Volunteers are handing out leaflets with important material in both Czech and Ukrainian.
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. Slovak President Zuzana Caputova posted on Twitter on Monday that she’s in favor of enlarging the European Union to include Ukraine. “Ukraine is Europe, and it should be in the European Union. I agree with the call by President Volodymyr Zelensky for the EU to take a decisive step towards Ukraine’s membership. It’s about time.” Czech President Milos Zeman will meet PM Petr Fiala at the Lany presidential manor on Thursday to discuss not only the situation in Ukraine and Czech aid to the country, Zeman’s spokesman Jiri Ovcacek announced today. Assistance centres for Ukrainian refugees are to be set up in all of the regions of the Czech Republic, the minister of the interior, Vít Rakušan, said after a meeting of the Central Crisis Staff on Monday. The centres will deal with accommodation, logistics, humanitarian aid and transport. The Czech police are to meet a request from their Slovak counterparts for help on the Slovak-Ukrainian border. Some 50 Czech officers will help register people crossing the border. The minister of the...
Prague authorities have abolished for citizens of Ukraine fares for public transport. The measure will last until the cancellation order). A valid passport or ID card entitles Ukrainian passengers to free transport in Prague as well as on suburban and regional buses and trains. The free fare covers the entire PID transport system (i.e. commuter trains and buses) as well as the entire Central Bohemian region. “In cooperation with the authorities of the Central Bohemian region and railway carriers we introduce free transport to Ukrainian citizens. We want to help our Ukrainian friends as much as possible and make it easier for them to move around Prague without burdening them with excessive bureaucracy. Glory to Ukraine!”, declared the Deputy Mayor of Prague for Transport Adam Scheinherr. Moreover, the Czech police are to meet a request from their Slovak counterparts for help on the Slovak-Ukrainian border. Some 50 Czech officers will help register people crossing the border. The minister of the interior, Vít Rakušán, said they would set off on Tuesday.
About 80,000 protesters thronged Prague’s central square on Sunday to support Ukraine and the Czech prime minister told the crowd the country still remembered its own terror of Russian tanks rolling into the capital more than five decades ago. Protesters filled the 750-metre long Wenceslas Square, site of the biggest demonstrations in the country’s history, chanting and waving blue and yellow Ukrainian flags and signs with messages such as “Hands off Ukraine” and “Putin War Criminal”. The protests come as fighting in Ukraine reached a fourth day following Russia’s invasion, which Moscow calls a special operation, the biggest assault on a European state since World War Two. “Of course, I had to come here today, because one must stand up to evil,” pensioner Jindrich Synek told Reuters. “I have experienced it in this square a couple of times already.” Wenceslas Square was home to demonstrations during the 1989 Velvet Revolution that ended decades of Soviet-backed communist rule, as well as protests in 1968 when Soviet-led troops invaded communist Czechoslovakia to end reforms that upset Moscow. Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said the National Museum building at the top of the square still had bullet holes from Russian invaders in 1968....
The Czech National Bank (CNB) has initiated steps to withdraw the license of Sberbank CZ.
On February 28, the Czech Republic will send a train to Ukraine carrying humanitarian cargo, Ukrzaliznytsia’s Telegram channel reported on Sunday. “The train will carry passengers back free of charge. Please arrive at 12:00 to go through customs control and board the designated train. It will run to the Czech Republic with stops in Slovakia,” the report says. Ukrzaliznytsia urges passengers who are heading to the EU not to take trains to Uzhgorod, but to get off at Chop – it will be more convenient for them to cross the border with the EU there. “Those who wish to cross the border of Ukraine with the EU countries are requested to arrive at the Chop station. A transport hub has been created at the railway station here. Nine pairs of trains continue to run daily from the Chop station to Zahony (Hungary, one train consists of 6 wagons),” Ukrzaliznytsia said. You need to buy tickets for these trains. Boarding trains is carried out in the presence of a ticket and one of the documents: – international passport; – biometric passport; – Ukrainian passport. Priority boarding is given to women, children, and the elderly.
If your day doesn’t start until you’re up to speed on the latest headlines, then let us introduce you to our new morning fix. The Czech national team will not play Russia in pivotal FIFA World Cup playoff qualifiers in March because of the country’s invasion of Ukraine. The announcement comes in the wake of similar decisions taken by Poland and Sweden. The Czech Republic will send additional weapons and military equipment to Ukraine worth 400 million. On Saturday the country sent Ukraine machine guns, submachine guns, sniper rifles, pistols, and ammunition worth 188 million crowns. Solidarity with Ukraine has brought domestic operators together. They have jointly decided that people will be able to make calls to the Russian-invaded state for free, in response to data suggesting that the number of calls between the two countries has increased by up to 900 percent. 80,000 people gathered on Wenceslas Square on Sunday afternoon in support of Ukraine. The demonstration called by the movement Million Moments for Democracy, was addressed by the Ukrainian ambassador to Prague, members of the Ukrainian minority and human rights activists. Last year, Prague Airport reduced its CO2 emissions by 72 percent compared...
Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS) said that the Czech government will release up to an additional CZK 400 million worth of weapons to Ukraine as it struggles to repulse a Russian invasion. The request for more weapons was expressed by the Ukrainian President. “Zelenskyj asked me for specific weapons and military equipment. I found out that we can provide,” said Fiala. Defence Minister Jana Černochová (ODS) said the Czech Republic will donate 30,000 pistols, 7,000 assault rifles, 3,000 machine guns, several dozen rifles for snipers and about a million rounds of ammunition. On Saturday the Czech Republic sent Ukraine machine guns, submachine guns, sniper rifles, pistols and ammunition worth 188 million crowns. Mr. Fiala said the democratic world must stand strong and united in the face of this aggression. He said the latest developments in Ukraine showed the importance of investing the required 2 percent of GDP into defense which the Czech Republic was committed to fulfilling by 2025. The Czech prime minister said isolating Russia would be costly, but Europe must be prepared the price for future European security. “The blackest scenario is happening. It’s an attack on the whole of Ukraine, that’s scary. It’s a terrible situation,” he...
Let’s treat Ukraine as a NATO member. An attack on a free country is an attack on all of us. We have a moral obligation to use the economy as a weapon to its fullest extent, no matter what it costs us. We call on all economists in the world to participate. We have just seen Russia invade another country right before our eyes. And not with dubious background media or political manipulations to which Putin has resorted to this day, but with full military force. By any standard, this is an insane, senseless attack. They are shelling a country that does not want to be shelled. And why? Because Ukraine has ceased to be Putin’s puppet since 2014. He bit them once then, laughing and mocking the advanced word, and now he has whetted his appetite and is biting a second time – with full force. We have a moral duty to wage full-scale economic warfare. This is a full-scale attack; we must retaliate in full. The current sanctions will not make Putin give in. We are no longer negotiating, Russia has turned out to be a state terrorist. We have been attacked, NATO or not. We should use...
Of the two trains that Czech Railways dispatched to Přemyšl near the Polish-Ukrainian border on Friday, one will return to the Czech Republic on Saturday. The Ministry of Interior’s Refugee Facilities Administration (SUZ) will support them with free accommodation. More than 120,000 people have already fled Ukraine due to the Russian invasion. Many Ukrainian families living in the Czech Republic are driving to the border to pick up their families there. The second train dispatched to help Ukrainian refugees stays in Přemyšl for the time being and will be used operationally according to the further development of the humanitarian situation on the ground, said Czech Railways (ČD) spokesman Petr Šťáhlavský. According to ČD’s Deputy Director for Passenger Transport, Jiří Ješeta, most of the refugees want to move mainly to Krakow, Katowice and Warsaw. Therefore ČD has agreed with Polish colleagues that they can use the Czech train for the refugees’ journey to the above-mentioned Polish stations. The first train should arrive in Bohumín after 15:00, and from there will continue to other Czech cities, such as Břeclav, Olomouc and Prague. In addition to special trains, the state carrier has since Friday also allowed free transport on its trains to Ukrainian...
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