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Dear Sirs,

on behalf of the DWK in Poznan and the team of the law firm VON ZANTHIER & SCHULZ, we cordially invite you to participate in a free webinar about business activities during the coronavirus pandemic.

The webinar in the Polish language will take place on Tuesday, 31 March 2020 at 11 a.m. on clickmeeting. The meeting will be held by attorney at law Karolina Barałkiewicz-Sokal and tax consultant Magdalena Stefaniak-Odziemska. The webinar takes about 45 minutes.

The webinar addresses the issues that are currently of crucial importance for entrepreneurs, in particular:

• relationships with employees,
• trade agreements,
• anti-crisis legislation.

How to join the webinar? If you are interested, please send a message to: carrieri@vonzanthier.com. A link to the meeting will be sent to the participants just before the meeting. To join the webinar, simply click on the received link or register here: vonzanthierdachowski.clickmeeting.pl/business-vs-coronavirus/register.

You are cordially invited!

New rules for the split payment apply from 01/11/2019. This mechanism is based on the fact that the buyer can only transfer a net amount to the current account of the seller. The VAT is transferred to a special VAT bank account. The funds in the VAT bank account belong to the seller, but cannot be freely disposed. The funds may be used in particular to settle tax or other public law liabilities. A VAT bank account is automatically opened by the Tax Office, but this does not apply to foreign entities that do not have a bank account in Poland.

The split payment mechanism is mandatory as of 01/11/2019 for transactions documented by invoices issued in the amount exceeding PLN 15,000 gross and concerning among others:

• construction works;
• secondary raw materials and waste;
• electrical equipment;
• coal;
• engine petrol, diesel oils, heating oils and lubricating oils;
• steel and metal products.

If the new rules are not applied, the Tax Office may impose an additional tax obligation or the VAT-tax payer may bear the consequences resulting from the Fiscal Penal Code. At your request, we will be happy to check whether you are subject to the mandatory split payment mechanism and whether your invoice templates and payment processes are adapted to this.

Lukasz Dachowski, managing partner in the Poznań office of VON ZANTHIER & SCHULZ, will lead the discussion "What do clients expect from their lawyers?" during the LEGAL MARKET DAY 2020!

LEGAL MARKET DAY 2020 is the biggest conference for lawyers in Poland. This is the seventh edition. Approximately 200 lawyers took part in each of the previous ones. The special guest of this year's edition is a world-famous specialist, a futurologist in the legal industry, prof. Richard Susskind. Łukasz Dachowski will lead a discussion with Kamila Bury, LL.M., Michał Jackowski Prof., and Ryszard Sowa.

Małgorzata Justyńska legal advisor and tax advisor in our office will also take part in LEGAL MARKET DAY 2020.

Attacks by hackers on companies to extort money are becoming more and more frequent and more expensive for German companies. We have decided to make our contribution to fight against hackers and to minimize the damage of enterprises, if possible: VON ZANTHIER & SCHULZ is therefore from March 2, 2020 cooperating with the Europe-wide and successful cyber security company SEC Consult Deutschland GmbH

SEC Consult offers immediate help around the clock in case of hacker attacks: in case of an attack technical countermeasures are swiftly initiated to ward off the hacker and prevent further damage (so called Incident Response). Within the scope of the forensic analysis the traces of the attacker are secured for potentially following legal steps.

VON ZANTHIER & SCHULZ provides legal support to SEC Consult in Germany, be it by determining the necessity of a legally required breakdown report, checking possibilities of recourse claims, or managing customer claims. As a preventative measure, we put on our hat as data protection officer and implement the DSGVO requirements in the respective company, which reduces the possibilities of claims against it.