Insights
COVID-19 updates: Tax and IPR
March 19, 2020The world is in an unprecedented situation with the outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus (officially renamed, “COVID-19”). Numerous countries have instituted stringent policy measures to prevent the spread of the outbreak. While, for now, such policy measures comprise of widespread travel restrictions, workplace closures, citywide lockdowns and mandatory quarantines, with the World Health Organization having declared COVID-19 as a pandemic, there are growing concerns of restrictions on trade with infected regions being imposed soon.
As crucial as such policy measures are in curtailing the rampant spread of this outbreak, business operations of companies, both, inside and outside of China, Italy, and South Korea, are facing considerable commercial disruption as a consequence of these measures. In this edition, we examine key issues related to tax & intellectual property rights, for boards to consider in light of COVID-19.
