The deadline for multinational enterprise groups with a consolidated annual turnover exceeding EUR 750 million to submit country by country reports for 2016 was 20 October 2017. It appears that some companies which are required to submit reports have been unable to do so because they cannot be registered with the government's "Ariadne" portal, through which reports have to be submitted, because they are not registered with the Registrar of Companies.

The Tax Department has issued advice to such companies to contact its offices for assistance.

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