The document outlines changes to income tax regulations for individuals, including a new progressive tax rate of 25% and changes to health and social contributions effective in 2013. Key updates include adjustments to the calculation of tax-free amounts, redefinitions of taxable income types, and increased contributions for self-employed individuals. It emphasizes the impact of these changes on various income scenarios and the overall tax landscape for physical persons.

1. Income Tax of physical
persons 2013
Including self-employed persons and
changes to social and health insurance
Bart Waterloos
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2. Table of contents
Quick overview of the most important changes
Repeating of changes past 2 years
Taxation of individuals
Dividends
Changes to the health and social contributions
Simulations
Questions and Answers
About VGD-AVOS
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3. Quick overview
Top tax changes for 2013
Introduction of progressive tax rate of 25%
Limitation of lump-sum costs
Limitation of tax-free amount
Limitation of tax bonus
Special rate for dividends from profits realised until 2003
No extension of deadline for filing the tax return
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4. Look back to the past
Changes over the last 2 years
Taxation of employment income
Extension in the range of insured persons for social insurance
Intended periodicity of the remuneration is prevailing over the
type of the contract for social insurance
Claw-back for social contributions on irregular remunerations
All benefits subject to social and health contributions:
 Travel allowances
 Redundancy payments or severance
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5. Taxation of individuals
Overview
Subject to personal income tax are the following types of
income:
 Employment income (§5)
 Entrepreneurial and rental income (§6)
 Investment income (§7)
 Other income (§8)
Tax statement is due by 31 March, deadline can only be
extended with foreign income
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6. Taxation of individuals
Cancellation of the flat tax rate
19% will remain the base rate,
But a new tax rate of 25% being introduced:
 For monthly tax base above 2.866,81 € or 34.401,72 € on a
yearly basis
 In technical terms: for amounts exceeding 176,8-times the valid
life-minimum
 A special 5% tax on Selected State Officials
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7. Taxation of individuals
Determining the Tax Base
The tax free amount :
 Is calculated as 19,2 times the life-minimum valid per 1st of January
of the year (19,2 x 194,58 € = 3.735,94€)
 Compared to 3.644,74 € for the year 2012
 Tax payer can claim the entire tax free amount only if the yearly
taxable base is less than 100 times the life-minimum (i.e. less than
19.458 €; compared to 18.983 € for the year 2012
 Usually managers and expats are above this limit and can thus not
enjoy the tax free amount at all (yearly taxable base is above
34.401,74 €, or 2.866,8 € monthly) (176,8 times the life-minimum)
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8. Taxation of individuals
Determining the Tax Base
Tax free amount (allowance) limited to ‘active income’, i.e.:
 Employment income (§5)
 Entrepreneurial or other income from self-employment (§6, 1°- 2°)
 No longer applicable on “passive” income - e.g. rental income
Tax free amount (allowance) for spouse, only if:
 She is taking care of the kids till 3 years (6 if disabled), or
 She is registered as self-employed, or
 She is a disabled person herself
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9. Taxation of individuals
Determining the Tax Base
Tax free amount (allowance) for pension savings
 Compensation for lowering of the second pillar
 Payments for pension savings up to 2% of tax base from active
income
 Calculated maximum from 60-times the average salary
Tax bonus for children:
 Discount of 19,32 € per child per month
 Condition: need income above 6-times the minimum salary
 Only for ‘active’ income
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10. Taxation of individuals
Types of income: employment income
Consists of:
 Gross salary
 Bonuses
 Fringe benefits
No changes in 2013
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11. Taxation of individuals
Types of income: entrepreneurial income
Taxable income:
 Income from small business
 Independent profit-making activities (self-employed)
 Rent of real estate
Tax-free amount of 500 € for rental income
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12. Taxation of individuals
Types of income: entrepreneurial income
Lump-sum expenses:
 40% remains
 But yearly maximum of 5.040 €, or monthly 420 €
 To be applied on a monthly basis
Lump-sum for small agricultural income
Authors’ revenues:
 Different categories, with all effect on tax and health or social
contributions
 Income for contributions to magazines, newspapers, … can be
taxed via withholding tax, then no social and health contributions,
but also no lump-sum expenses, 19%
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13. Taxation of individuals
Types of income: investment income
Taxable income:
 Interests
 Winnings
 Yields from additional pension and life insurance
Mostly there is a withholding tax, whereby this withholding tax is
now considered final in many occasions
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14. Taxation of individuals
Types of income: other income
Taxable income:
 Income from occasional activity
 Income from the sale of real estate
 Transfer of securities, options, shares
 Monetary and non-monetary income provided to health care
provider or its employee/medical staff by explicitly selected
persons, no expenses can be applied
Lump-sum for small occasional agricultural income
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15. Taxation of individuals
Technical issue: allocation of tax to NGO’s
For individuals:
 2% still available to donate
 Unlike legal entities, no conditions and no gifts
 Another 1% (3% in total) can be assigned by those volunteers
who worked for any NGO’s for free for 40 working hours a year –
applicable on tax period of 2012
 Should the conditions be not met, penalty of 1% applies
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16. Dividends
Health insurance 2011-2012
Dividends are subject to health contributions
 10% contribution is due by the individual receiving the profit
shares
 on the amount exceeding the monthly minimum calculation base
 Applicable on profits generated for accounting periods starting
after 1 January 2011
 Includes also the liquidation balance
 No obligation for company paying out the dividends
 Combine with overall maximum annual calculation base
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17. Dividends
Health insurance 2013 onwards
Dividends are subject to health contributions
 14% contribution is due by the individual receiving the profit
shares
 Completely separate calculation base
 Calculation base of 120 times the monthly average salary, or
thus cap of 94.320 EUR for 2013
 The company paying out the dividends has to ‘withhold’ the
contribution
 Valid on dividends paid out as from 2013 profits
 Only for individuals subject to the Slovak health system
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18. Dividends
Profits from before 2004
Old dividends: if paid out until 2012
 19% income tax
 health insurance?
Old dividends: if paid out in 2013 only
 15% income tax
 NO health insurance contributions
 Done via withholding tax
 Decision GM to be taken in 2013
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19. Dividends
General overview
dividends Profit till 2004-2010 2011-2012 2013-.....
2003
Health
insurance
rate
Till 31-10- 0% 0% 0% 0%
2010
2011-2012 0%? 0% 10% 0%
2013 0% 0% 10% 14%
2014 0%? 0% 10% 14%
.... 0%? 0% 10% 14%
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20. Health and social insurance
Increased and unified calculation basis
There will be only one calculation basis for all insurances,
New amount will be:
 3.930 EUR
 Or five-times the monthly average salary from 2 years ago.
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21. Health and social insurance
Overview premiums 2012
Insurance Maximum % employee % employer
calculation base
Health 2.307,50 € 4% 10%
Sickness 1.153,50 € 1,4% 1,4%
Pension 3.076,00 € 4% 14%
Invalidity 3.076,00 € 3% 3%
Unemployment 3.076,00 € 1% 1%
Accident no limit - 0,8%
Guarantee fund 1.153,50 € - 0,25%
Reserve fund 3.076,00 € - 4,75%
13,4% 35,20%
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22. Health and social insurance
Overview premiums 2013
Insurance Maximum % employee % employer
calculation base
Health 3.930,00 € 4% 10%
Sickness 3.930,00 € 1,4% 1,4%
Pension 3.930,00 € 4% 14%
Invalidity 3.930,00 € 3% 3%
Unemployment 3.930,00 € 1% 1%
Accident no limit - 0,8%
Guarantee fund 3.930,00 € - 0,25%
Reserve fund 3.930,00 € - 4,75%
13,4% 35,20%
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23. Effect of changes
Simulation 1
Take a senior manager in an international company; earning
currently 5.500 EUR gross a month,
 This person will have currently net income of 4.161,50 EUR
 Costs for the employer: 6.514,50 EUR
After the intended changes:
 Her net income will drop with 259,50 EUR to 3.902 EUR
 Costs for the company will increase with 381,4 EUR to 6.895,9
EUR
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24. Effect of changes
Simulation 2
Take a young professional working at a senior position; earning
currently 2.600 EUR gross a month,
 This person will have currently net income of 1.875,50 EUR
 Costs for the employer: 3.467,50 EUR
After the intended changes:
 His net income will drop with 22,50 EUR to 1.853 EUR
 Costs for the company will increase with 47,65 EUR to 3.515,20
EUR
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25. Effect of changes
Simulation 3
SME company, IT sector, some employees, owner is physical
person, also working as manager
 Currently company is making profit of 200.000 EUR
 Corporate income tax: 38.000 EUR
 Net income owner: 154.000 EUR
After the intended changes:
 Gross profit will drop to 190.000 EUR
 Corporate income tax: 43.700 EUR
 Net income company: 146.300 EUR
 Net income owner: 133.095 EUR
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26. Health and social insurance
Extension to ‘dohodari’
Dohodari will be considered entirely as ‘employees’,
 Therefor not only accident and guarantee insurance, but all types
of insurance
 Contributions due by the employer and employee
 Will be enjoying then also the benefits
Some exceptions,
 students
 Recipients of a pension
 These categories still escape the sickness, unemployment and
health care insurance.
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27. Health and social insurance
Self-employed persons
Contributions will increase for them as well,
 From currently 44,2% average salary of two years ago to 50%
 Calculated from the tax base before deductions of social and
health insurance contributions
 Further increases for those earning more than 1.200 € monthly
Negative impact also from the reduction in the lump-sum
expenses
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28. Health and social insurance
Technical issues
Annual reconciliation
 Changed the date till end of September
 Done now by the health insurance
Changes to the first and second pension pillars
 Transfer from the second pillar contributions to the first pillar
(from 9% to 4%)
 Voluntary extra contributions are possible and are a tax benefit
(max. 2% from tax base, overall maximum of 943,20 EUR for
2013-
 Calculation bases and percentages for the first pension pillar to
be changed yearly
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29. Health and social insurance
Technical issues
Meal allowances
 Increased per 1st of September 2012
 Minimum amount is now 4,00 EUR for 5-12 hours trip
 Thus mealticket should be min. 3,00 EUR
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30. Questions &
Answers
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