Multilateral Convention

Slovakia ratified the OECD’s Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting, sometimes abbreviated as BEPS, intended to combat tax base erosion and profit shifting under individual double taxation treaties. The Multilateral Convention is intended to amend all double taxation treaties concluded by Slovakia and enters into force…

Minimum wage

The minimum wage increases from €480 to €520 effective 1 January 2019. The defined €520 minimum wage is a gross monthly minimum wage. After deducting 19% for income tax and statutory deductions for health insurance and to Social Insurance, the net monthly salary is approximately €430.

Increase in the tax bonus

The amended Income Tax Act approved by the MPs in the Slovak Parliament will increase, specifically double, the tax bonus for children up to the age of 6 as of April 2019. The tax bonus represents a tax benefit provided to taxpayers with dependent children living with the taxpayer in the same household in the…

Implementation in France

On 24 September 2018, the French Government presented the Finance Bill draft for the year 2019. This draft will be discussed by the French Parliament over the next few weeks and may be subject to changes; the final version will be enacted before end of year, 2018. Interest deduction limitation rules Article 13 of the…

Insurance tax

On 20 June 2018, the National Council of the Slovak Republic passed an Act on insurance tax effective of 1 January 2019. The new insurance tax will have a flat-rate basis of 8 % and apply to all non-life insurance products, with the exception of mandatory contractual insurance where the existing 8% payment remains in…