The government announced a series of unprecedented economic measures. The measures are designed to protect people’s jobs and livelihoods and to minimise the impact on self-employed persons, small and medium-sized enterprises and major companies. The measures will ensure that companies are able to pay their employees’ wages, grant a bridging arrangement for self-employed and relief companies through relaxed tax provisions, allowances and supplemental lines of credit. A company that expects to lose at least 20% of its revenue may apply for an allowance that will enable it to pay its employees’ wages for three months, up to a maximum of 90% of the company’s wage bill.
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