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122 articles18 guides · 102 explainers · 1 list · 1 FAQUpdated 12 Oct 2026
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Czech property tax calculation: coefficients and the local multiplier
The same flat can carry a different tax bill in Prague and in a village outside it. The gap is a chain of multipliers, and the town controls two of them.
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Czech property tax for foreign owners: who pays and how it is filed
The annual property tax does not care where you live. It cares who owns the flat on 1 January, and an owner abroad has to find a way to file and pay.
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Czech property tax news: what changed, what is fixed, what to watch
The tax on a flat rose by about three quarters in 2024 and has varied by town since 2025. A change log, a worked example and how to follow proposals.
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Czech property valuation for a mortgage: how the bank values your flat
The price in your contract is what a buyer agreed to pay. The bank's valuation is what it would accept as security. When the two differ, you fund the gap.
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Czech R&D tax deductions explained
How the Czech Income Tax Act lets companies deduct eligible research and development costs from their tax base, and what documentation the tax office expects.
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Czech real estate funds: investing without buying a flat
A fund lets you own a slice of many buildings for a small sum, and swaps landlord headaches for fees, valuation questions and exit rules. How they are built.
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Czech real estate tax and transfer rules for companies that own property
A company that owns a building pays the same annual tax as a person, but VAT, depreciation and the sale itself work differently. A guide to the differences.
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Czech road tax and company car taxation: what a firm car really costs
A company car triggers four separate tax questions in Czechia: road tax, VAT, income tax and the employee benefit. Here is how each works.
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Czech start-up ecosystem: how it is structured
The public institutions, funding channels and universities that make up Czechia's start-up support system, and what each does.
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Czech tax news: the changes that affect individuals in 2026
No new income tax rate, but the self-employed got a mid-year cut backdated to January, the securities cap went and cooperative members gained a deduction.
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Czech tax on a gifted or inherited flat: what the exemptions cover
Czechia has no gift or inheritance tax, but a gift is still income. The giver matters more than the gift, and the line between relatives and friends is sharp.
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Czech tax on investments: how the three-year time test works
Hold shares or funds long enough and the gain can fall outside Czech income tax. How the time test works, where it stops, and the order in which units count.
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Czech tax rate for individuals: the 15% and 23% bands explained
Few people pay the 23% rate, and those who do pay it only on the slice above a threshold. The base, the credit and a worked example for a CZK 2 million income.
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Czech tax residency: the two tests that decide where you owe tax
A home that stays available, or 183 days on the ground: how Czechia decides you are resident, and what treaties do when two countries disagree.
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Czech Trade Licensing Office (živnostenský úřad) explained
What the trade licensing office does for businesses: registration, the single registration form, the public register and its supervisory powers.
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Czech trademarks and IP: how to register
The three routes to a trademark that covers Czechia, national, EU and international, and what the registers do and do not check.
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Czech transfer pricing basics: pricing deals inside a group
When two companies in one group trade with each other, the tax office asks whether a stranger would have agreed the same price. How Czechia applies that test.
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Czech unemployment: why the rate stays among the EU's lowest
Czechia's jobless rate sits near the bottom of the EU table year after year. The factory economy behind it, two ways of counting and what the headline hides.
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Czech VAT explained: two rates, one threshold and a filing calendar
How Czech value added tax works for a business: output and input VAT, who must register, what a payer files and where newcomers go wrong.
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Czech VAT number: how to get one and how to check it in VIES
A DIČ is not a working VAT number until the tax office registers you. The statuses, the application and the EU database your German client will check.
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Czech VAT rates: 21%, 12%, exempt, zero-rated and reverse charge sorted out
A coffee, a sandwich and a bottle of wine can carry different VAT. How supplies are assigned to rates, and why exempt and zero-rated are not the same.
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Czech wage data: why the average runs ahead of the typical pay packet
Headlines celebrate the average wage, yet most employees earn less than it. How to read the Statistical Office's wage releases, sector gaps and real growth.
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Czech withholding taxes: what a payer must keep back, and when
When a Czech company pays a dividend, royalty or interest abroad, it may owe the tax before you do. How the 15% and 35% rates work, and how to reclaim.
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Czechia's 2012 methanol crisis: the spirits ban and the controls after
Counterfeit spirits killed dozens of people in 2012 and led to a nationwide ban on strong drink. How the crisis unfolded and what the state changed.