Mergers according to the new wording

The amendment provides measures targeted against speculative mergers of companies. Section 69 is supplemented to include paragraphs 11 – 15 that specify the given issue in detail. Section 11 defines that, as of the day of merger, amalgamation or division of a company, the value of the liabilities of the successor company may not exceed…

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…

SOFT WARNING

Softwarning is “friendly informative notifications” the Financial Administration started to deliver to selected groups of clients at the end of 2017. On the one hand, it is a pro-client measure representing a modernizing feature of the Financial Administration, on the other hand, it also serves as a support of voluntary fulfilment of tax liabilities. The…

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…