August 2021 has it all: New laws come into force, deadlines are postponed and RTL is attacking the Tagesschau with familiar faces.
Tax return: postponed deadline and more transparency
Originally, the tax return for 2020 should have been submitted on August 2nd.
However, due to the consequences of the corona pandemic, which primarily caused a sharp increase in applications and cases, this deadline has been postponed by three months in order to provide relief.
The new final submission date falls on October 31, 2021.
The Transparency Financial Information Act comes into force at the beginning of August.
Companies that have not previously had to register in the transparency register thanks to the - now deleted - notification fiction must now do so and ensure that their data is kept up-to-date in the future.
Nothing will change for already registered companies, writes
finanzen.net
.
New entry regulations apply from August 1st: Rules for vacation in the Corona summer
The rising incidences, especially in popular vacation destinations for Germans, are causing the federal government to adjust or tighten the currently valid entry regulations.
According to various media reports, the new regulations will come into force at the beginning of August.
Markus Söder (CDU) also insists on a uniform regulation for those returning to travel.
How exactly the amended entry regulation will look has not yet been finalized.
According to media reports, however, the testing requirements for those who are not fully vaccinated are to be tightened.
In future there will be the entry categories “high incidence area” and “virus variant area”.
There will probably also be innovations for the various quarantine obligations.
That will change in August: the identity card will be more secure
In December 2020 the “Law to Strengthen Security in Passport, ID and Immigration Documents” was passed.
Some of its changes had already come into effect in the course of this year, another will now be added in August: As
finanzen.net
writes, from August 2nd, every newly issued ID card must contain two fingerprints of the respective owner.
This, as well as a new version number on the ID card to protect against forgery, is intended to increase the security of the document.
The changes are based on EU regulation 2019/1157.
Changes in August 2021: Bonus money for children in low-income families
As part of the so-called Corona catch-up program, low-income families receive a one-time fee of 100 euros for each child or underage adolescent.
The money can be used for leisure and holiday activities and is intended to mitigate the consequences of the corona-related restrictions in education and leisure for children and young people, writes
rp-online.de
.
Families who receive Hart IV, housing benefit or other basic social benefits are qualified for the bonus money.
Controversial copyright law comes into force in August
On August 1st, the new Copyright Service Provider Act (UrhDaG) comes into force.
In the past few years there had been numerous demonstrations against it, as critics feared a restriction of the Internet culture.
According to
finanzen.net
Federal Minister of Justice Christine Lambrecht describes the innovation as part of the "largest European copyright reform of the last twenty years".
One of the most important innovations of the law is above all the direct payment entitlement of artists to internet platforms.
The latter will in future be liable if users upload copyrighted material such as photos and videos to the platform.
Operators can protect themselves with licenses, but have to systematically block and remove certain content in order to avoid payment requests.
Short excerpts from videos are not affected by these regulations.
Overview of other new laws from August 2021
Glyphosate partially banned: In the future, the use of the weed killer will be prohibited in private use, on sports fields and playgrounds as well as in parks.
Exceptions only apply to funds with final approval.
New occupational diseases: As the
Deutsche Handwerks Zeitung
reports, lung cancer and hip arthrosis will in future be considered occupational diseases - however, the direct connection with the work performed must be proven for the diagnosis as such.
Clean road vehicles: From August 2nd, public actors such as the post office or city cleaning are obliged to procure a certain number of low-emission and zero-emission vehicles, writes
finanzen.net
.
This is regulated by the quotas to be met.
Vehicles used by the police, emergency services and fire services are excluded.
The return of the political shows and the RTL daily news attack
A lot will change in the TV landscape in August. It starts with the political talk shows, which return punctually to the hot phase of the federal election campaign. Maischberger will be there again from August 4th, Frank Plasberg will come back with "hard but fair" on August 23rd, Anne Will on August 29th. Markus Lanz takes the summer break in August - but comes back in the same month: he says goodbye on August 5th, and is back on August 24th. And don't forget: According to
rp-online.de,
there will be the first new "Tatort" episode on August 29th.
The most important innovation is on private television: With the long-time “Tagesschau” spokesman Jan Hofer and the long-time ARD presenter Pinar Atalay, the private broadcaster RTL is attacking ARD's “Tagesschau”. "RTL Direkt" is the name of the new format and will run from Monday to Thursday from 10:15 p.m. on August 16. Part of the show will be studio guests and a team of reporters.
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