Capital gains tax

The high retail prices and the increased international coffee rates have forced the government not only to extend the value-added tax rate reduction to 13% but to make it permanent.

Freelancers will be asked to pay two or three times the income tax they paid in previous years, according to the first settlement notes received.

About 1,500 taxpayers have received emails asking them to justify to the tax administration the huge differences that arise between their declared taxable income and expenses that they seem to have incurred.

The sanitization of the real estate market and the prevention of the gray economy in construction have been sacrificed to the growing problem of housing and the need to increase investments - at least for the next two years.

The Finance Ministry's draft law "Measures to curb tax evasion" was approved by a majority vote in principle and on the articles on Thursday evening. It passed with the votes of 158 lawmakers for against 140 against. 

Parliament has voted into law a Finance Ministry bill on measures to restrict tax evasion that introduces new regulations for freelancers and the self-employed.

All 158 MPs from ruling New Democracy voted for the bill in principle, while 140 voted against it.

Main opposition SYRIZA, PASOK and the Communist Party had requested roll-call votes in specific articles.

The government is attempting to support young freelancers in their first professional steps through a favorable tax framework.

In this context, new self-employed people will be taxed on their 2022 income at a rate of 4.5% - i.e. at a rate that is 50% lower than that which applies to the first tax bracket.

The British island, located off the coast of France, has no capital gains or inheritance tax

Twitter users have decided that entrepreneur Elon Musk will sell 10% of his shares in Tesla. This was done through a poll published by him, in which he stated that he would take the step if Twitter approved, and would take into account the results of the poll, whatever they may be.

More than 3.5 million people voted, and almost 58% of them answered "yes".

Ljubljana – Only a day after putting out a proposal on taxation of trading in cryptocurrencies, the Financial Administration (FURS) said it will amend the proposal amid a strong response from stakeholders to give taxpayers the option to chose between paying tax either on the profits they make or as a percentage of the cryptocurrency they cash in.