In January 2021, the Czech government approved a new support package from the pen of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The new support package aimed at helping entrepreneurs whose activities were curtailed due to government measures to fight the coronavirus epidemic. The program called "COVID - Gastro - Closed Establishments" will compensate entrepreneurs for each day their activities were limited in the period from 9 October 2020 to 10 January 2021. The compensation amounts to CZK 400 per employee per day, and the applications under this first call can be submitted from 18 January 2021.
The program aims to support entrepreneurs who employ workers in restaurants, retail stores, or personal, educational, and recreational services and whose sales and liquidity have decreased due to the above measures. After approval, compensation will be provided for all employees in the given sector (and / or for cooperating self-employed persons or executives with a contract for the performance of the function of director) who were registered to pay premiums to the Czech Social Security Office as of 31 October 2020. The support is provided mainly for the costs of operating and maintaining business activities, such as personnel costs, costs of materials, services (incl. Leasing), depreciation, taxes and fees, loan repayments, overheads, etc.
Entrepreneurs can apply for the program from 18 January 2021 to 1 March 2021 via the MIT portal, similarly to, for example, the "COVID - rent" program (it is necessary to establish an active identity of a natural person, the so-called eIdentity). The conditions for the allocation of the subsidy include, among others, the absence of arrears overdue in relation to the state budget, state funds, the budget of a self-governing territorial unit or a health insurance company. Applicants can also apply only if they have not exceeded the obtained subsidies for COVID calls and Antivirus + in the amount of € 1.6 million. Individual entrepreneurs can apply for support for the number of days from the following table:
Should you need any detailed information or assistance, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Klára Janovská
Corporate Services Manager
ASB Czech Republic
kjanovska@asbgroup.eu
Jan Sedlář
Corporate Services Manager
ASB Czech Republic
jsedlar@asbgroup.eu