Luxury Goods

Fri | 12.06.2020

Accounting/audit/tax

According to Mazars, the global luxury market was forced to reckon with a massive economic downturn, registering a sales decline of 25% to 30%. To improve their profitability, luxury brands can optimize investments, decrease costly inventory or develop new processes for distribution, supply, sales, and delivery.

One of the most eye-catching particularities of the luxury industry is that spending is regularly based not on reasoning, but on emotions and feelings.

The new generation of consumers is much more aware of the brands they look to invest in, just because they are searching for something familiar with their own values and vision of the world. While some people are going back to their roots, for others luxury supports their identity, it is something that perceives more than the function it provides.

Invited at the Mazars' Forum in 2019, Li Edelkoort, one of the world's most famous trend forecasters, mentioned that „It’s the younger generation which is going to change our world. You can feel it, you can see it, it’s happening and it’s incredible the way they are doing this.” There is a need to reverberating the shamanistic part of us, the link to the ancestors, due to the ocean of content that influences our lives daily.

While this unexpected challenge will undoubtedly have a strong impact on society, it is unlikely to affect the very roots of human nature.

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Mazars’ perspective on the management of the tax liabilities

One of the key measures adopted during this period by the Romanian Government touches on the management of the tax liabilities. Mazars experts shared their perspective on this topic, talking about the following:

Taxpayers must pay on June 25th the tax liabilities for the past four months

In the current legislative context, the taxpayers who decided to postpone the payment of the tax liabilities during the application of this facility (having as due date March 25th, April 25th, and May 25th), will have to pay these amounts on June 25th, 2020. This means that some of the taxpayers, namely those which did not pay their tax liabilities during this period due to lack of liquidities, will have to pay their tax obligations for the past four months on June 25th.

The ancillary obligations may be canceled, subject to the fulfillment of the compliance and of payment obligations by December 15th, 2020

Embracing the idea of relieving the fiscal burden and increasing tax collection, the Romanian Government adopted several normative acts which provide the annulment of the ancillary tax obligations, subject to the taxpayer fulfilling its compliance and payment obligations by December 15th, 2020.

The tax periods related to the State of Emergency did not generate any major transactions

In the case of certain taxpayers for which the fiscal year is the same with the calendar year, the tax burden with significant impact consisted in the annual corporate income tax, which was due on 25th March 2020, as the fiscal periods related to the State of Emergency did not generate any major transactions. Although the annulment of the ancillary tax obligations is not precisely the support expected by most of the Romanian taxpayers (in particular those who opted to postpone the payment of the tax liabilities), this measure was conceived to increase both voluntary compliance and the collection rate.