STA, 3 September 2018 - The new coalition's plans over capital gains tax have fuelled an acrimonious row in Slovenia after an MP for the Left (Levica) threatened businessmen with nationalisation. In return, these urged response from officials. 

STA, 30 August 2018 - Responding to tax policy changes announced in the new coalition agreement, successful exhaust maker Akrapovič said on Thursday it would immediately spend its entire accumulated profit on dividends and investments in "more predictable business environments". 

STA, 28 August 2018 - Analysing the new coalition agreement, the business paper Finance takes particular issue with the plan to "include personal revenue from capital and rents into the base for calculating personal income tax". "Šarec's people feel entitled to up to 50% of your gains even though they contributed noting and took on no risk," the paper says on Tuesday. 

STA, 13 June 2018 - The OECD has proposed that Slovenia undertake a comprehensive tax reform in order to strengthen its resilience in the face of mounting demographic challenges. The centrepiece of the proposal is a reduction of the tax wedge offset with higher income tax and an expansion of the tax base. 

STA, 24 May 2018 - The taxation of wages in Slovenia rose by 1.4 percentage points to 40% in 2017, the Statistics Office said on Thursday. 

STA, 15 May 2018 - Taxes are at the centre of the campaign running up to the 3 June parliamentary election. Slovenia is likely to see fiscal policy changes in the future, according to answers that the parties have submitted to the STA showing that most of the parties want to cut taxes on labour and support a new real estate tax. 

Get ready for payments you will have to make once you start your own business. 

STA, 25 April 2018 – More than 14,000 Slovenian tax residents have bank accounts abroad, according to data available to the Financial Administration (FURS). Some of them are tax debtors and some report income that ranks them in the lowest income tax bracket. The record holder among the latter has EUR 7.6m stashed away in an overseas account. 

Those breaking tax evasion rules face fines of between 400 and 30,000 euros, plus back taxes. 

Under the new law, the registered value of real estate will not change with the changed market value.