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Finance and financial management · Business and start-ups · October 18, 2024
The 2025 consolidation package: what lies ahead for you as an entrepreneur or sole trader
The year 2025 will bring fundamental changes that will affect every entrepreneur and sole trader. As an accounting firm, we are here to help you better understand these changes and prepare for their impact. In this article, we give you an overview of the most important measures in the consolidation package approved by parliament.
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Finance and financial management · Business and start-ups · Social and health insurance contributions · Employment and labour law · September 5, 2024
Running a business and receiving unemployment benefit: is it possible?
Can an entrepreneur, such as a shareholder or managing director of an s.r.o. or a self-employed person (SZČO), bridge a period without income with unemployment benefit? You will find the answers to these questions in the following article.
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Finance and financial management · Business and start-ups · Social and health insurance contributions · August 15, 2024
The obligation of self-employed persons to pay social insurance contributions from 1 July 2024 and 1 October 2024
From 1 July 2024, or from 1 October 2024 (where the deadline for filing the tax return was extended), new rules apply to the obligation of self-employed persons (SZČO) to pay social insurance contributions. This obligation depends on the income reported in the tax return for the previous calendar year.
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Finance and financial management · Business and start-ups · Employment and labour law · August 8, 2024
AVERAGE MONTHLY WAGE FOR 2023: THE RESULTS AND THEIR IMPACT ON 2025
The Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic has published data on the average monthly wage of an employee for 2023. In this article, you will find out what it amounts to, in which sectors and regions employees earn the most, and how these figures will affect various parameters in 2025.
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Finance and financial management · Legislation and amendments · July 25, 2024
WHAT ARE THE NEW CHANGES IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT?
Public procurement has undergone two amendments that bring new exemptions, adjusted thresholds and changes to the supervision of public procurement. Here is an overview of the key changes effective from 1 August 2024. June 2024 was a period of significant change in public procurement.
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Finance and financial management · July 8, 2024
CHANGES TO THE SUBSISTENCE MINIMUM FROM 1 JULY 2024 AND THEIR IMPACT
From 1 July 2024, the subsistence minimum is increasing, which will affect various social benefits, allowances and income tax figures. What is the new level of the subsistence minimum and what other changes can you expect?
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Finance and financial management · Social and health insurance contributions · July 8, 2024
CHANGES TO THE PENSION SYSTEM: NEW MINIMUMS AFTER ENFORCEMENT, ADJUSTED EARLY PENSIONS AND UPDATED MINIMUM PENSION AMOUNTS
From 1 July 2024, the subsistence minimum increased from €268.88 to €273.99 per month. This change will affect enforcement deductions from pensions, entitlement to an early old-age pension and the level of minimum pensions. What does all this mean for pensioners?
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Finance and financial management · Business and start-ups · June 5, 2024
Dividends – payment and taxation for past accounting periods
Paying out dividends for past periods brings with it several important tax and contribution obligations, which depend on the accounting period for which the profit of the company or cooperative was generated. Below is an overview of the individual rules according to the period for which the dividends are paid.
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Finance and financial management · Legislation and amendments · April 25, 2024
Draft law introduces a tax on sweetened soft drinks
With the aim of regulating the consumption of sweetened soft drinks and increasing state budget revenue, a draft act on the tax on sweetened soft drinks has been submitted to the inter-ministerial comment procedure. If approved, the draft will introduce, from 1 January 2025, a tax that will apply to all soft drinks sweetened with sugar or other sweeteners.
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Finance and financial management · Employment and labour law · April 9, 2024
New subsidies – employment support in 2024
From 2 April, the national programme Financial Incentives for Employment, organised by the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family, will be launched. The project is designed to support young people under 30 and those who face disadvantages on the labour market.
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Finance and financial management · Business and start-ups · Accounting · Employment and labour law · March 14, 2024
WHO FILES AN INCOME TAX RETURN?
The following are required to file an income tax return: This year, the deadline for filing the income tax return is 2 April 2024. In addition to filing the tax return by the regular deadline, you can request an extension of the deadline for filing the tax return, either: HOW TO EXTEND THE DEADLINE FOR FILING A TAX RETURN?
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Finance and financial management · Uncategorised · February 21, 2024
State assistance with housing loan repayments from 1 January 2024
How will the state support loan repayments in 2024? State assistance with housing loan repayments is governed by Act No. 508/2023 Coll. of 8 December 2023 and Act No. 526/2023 Coll. of 12 December 2023, which took effect on 1 January 2024.
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