Posting of workers

Transpositioning of Directive (EU) 2018/957 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 June 2018 amending Directive 96/71/EC concerning the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services into Slovak law.  The original scope, or ‘hard core’ of the directive composed of the minimum wage tariff is expanded to include…

Tax news

Reduction in the income tax rate for selected taxpayers The amendment will reduce the income tax rate from 21% to 15% for legal entities and natural persons with income classified under §6 (1) and (2) of the income tax act and with annual income (revenues) of up to EUR 100,000. This reduced rate will be…

Fuel re-invoicing in the group

Does your company provide fuel cards to its subsidiaries or other companies within the same group? In this special newsletter, we would like to inform you on the Judgment of the European Court of Justice No. C-235/18 Vega International Car Transport and Logistic, in which the ECJ has ruled that the provision of fuel cards…

AMENDMENT OF THE VALUE ADDED TAX ACT

I. The National Council of the Slovak Republic had its first reading on 26 June 2019 for the approved a parliamentary motion to promulgate the law amending Act No. 222/2004 Coll. on Value Added Tax, as amended (“VAT act”). The draft amendment proposes reducing the VAT rate to 10% on all foodstuffs, with exceptions specified…

INCOME TAX ACT

The draft amendment to the income tax act modifies several aspects. This newsletter covers the most significant changes including: introduction of the term micro taxpayer and related changes to the taxation of this group of taxpayers Under the draft amendment to the income tax act, the new term micro taxpayer is used to define a…

ACCOUNTING ACT & eKasa

ACCOUNTING ACT The draft amendment of the accounting act set to take effect on 1 January 2020 primarily involves changes to the conditions under which audits become mandatory for ordinary and extraordinary individual financial statements. The proposal is to increase the financial limit for an accounting unit’s total assets from EUR 1,000,000 to EUR 2,000,000…