INSURANCE TAX

Based on the Plan of legislative tasks of the Slovak Government for 2018, the Ministry of Finance submitted for comments a draft bill relating to insurance tax. The aim of the proposal is to introduce insurance tax for insurance within non-life insurance as well as life insurance. The proposed amendment will alter the existing contribution…

Amendment to the VAT Act

Starting from 1 January 2018, several changes became effective also within the Act on Value added Tax. This newsletter provides a summary of the most important changes. Tax representative of a foreign person The introduction of special tax representative of a foreign person applies to the cases where a foreign person acquires, in the Slovak…

Amendment to the Act on Income Tax

On 7 December 2017, the National Council of the Slovak Republic adopted Act No. 344/2017 amending and supplementing Act No. 595/2003 on income tax as amended (hereinafter only the “Act”) and amending and supplementing Act No. 563/2009 on tax administration (Tax Procedure Code) and on amendment and supplementation to certain acts as amended. The amendment…

Cross-border sending of employees

The issue of cross-border sending of employees is currently a hot topic with regards to the complicated legal regulations of the recipient’s country from which many obligations arise not only in the area of labour law, social security and tax law, but also in the area of legal regulations. Major amendments were made to the…

Sending employees to France

Various laws (Loi Macron in August 2015 and Loi Travail in August 2016) and their related legal regulations in recent months substantially restricted the regulations in force in the area of sending employees to France. Among other things, they should curb illegal labour and dumping wages. The term “sending” is however time broad and in…