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Czech Employers Must Register New Hires Before Their First Day: What Changed on July 1, 2026

From July 1, 2026, Czech employers must register every new hire with the ČSSZ before the employee starts work — the old eight-day post-start window is gone. This guide covers the partial-registration option for Czech workers, the stricter foreign-worker rules, the JMHZ monthly report behind the change, penalties up to CZK 10 million, and a seven-step onboarding checklist.

Norway's Mandatory B2B E-Invoicing Starts January 1, 2027: EHF, Peppol, and Your Readiness Checklist

Norway moved mandatory B2B e-invoice issuance forward a year to January 1, 2027, with digital receipt and bookkeeping duties following on January 1, 2030. Invoices must be structured EHF Billing 3.0 files sent over Peppol — PDFs no longer count — for all bookkeeping-obligated businesses except those under NOK 50,000 turnover with no VAT or accounting obligations.

Vietnam Abolished the Business License Tax in 2026: What Freelancers and Household Businesses Actually Save

From 1 January 2026 Vietnam no longer collects the business license fee (lệ phí môn bài) and no longer requires its annual declaration, saving companies VND 2–3 million and household businesses up to VND 1 million a year — but arrears for 2025 and earlier remain collectible, and VAT, income tax and e-invoicing obligations are unchanged.

Foreign Trade Zones for Small Importers: Defer Duties, File Weekly, and Fix Inverted Tariffs

A Foreign Trade Zone defers duties until goods enter U.S. commerce, consolidates a week of shipments into a single Merchandise Processing Fee (capped at $651.50 for FY 2026 rather than charged per entry), and — with FTZ Board authorization — lets you elect the lower finished-good rate when component tariffs are inverted. Small importers reach all three as users of a 3PL magnet site, without activating a zone of their own.

Denmark's Digital Bookkeeping Act Hits Sole Proprietors: The DKK 300,000 Test and Your Switch-Over Plan

From January 1, 2026, Danish sole proprietorships, partnerships, and associations with net turnover above DKK 300,000 in both 2024 and 2025 — roughly 118,000 businesses — must keep books in a compliant digital system with NemHandel/Peppol e-invoicing, tamper-evident five-year storage, weekly automated backups, and SAF-T export on demand. This guide covers the two-year turnover test, the five system requirements, the five mistakes that trigger enforcement, and a seven-step migration checklist.

Your 10% Surcharge Expired on July 24 — But Your Books Didn't: A Small Importer's Guide to the Section 122 Sunset and the $23.7 Billion in IEEPA Refunds

The 10% Section 122 surcharge expired July 24, 2026 after 150 days and was replaced by 10-12.5% Section 301 duties; CBP's CAPE portal has already paid $23.7 billion of an estimated $166 billion in IEEPA refunds — learn how to re-model landed cost per SKU, track entry-level recoveries, and avoid booking refunds as income too early.