OECD Tax Policy Reviews: Slovenia 2018
This report is part of the OECD Tax Policy Reviews. The Reviews are intended to provide independent, comprehensive and comparative assessments of OECD member and non-member countries’ tax systems as well as concrete recommendations for tax policy reform. By identifying tailored tax policy reform options, the objective of the Reviews is to enhance the design of existing tax policies and to support the adoption of new reforms.
This report provides a comprehensive tax policy assessment of the taxes paid by individuals in Slovenia as well as tax reform recommendations. The report is divided into six chapters, with a summary of the main findings upfront, followed by more detailed recommendations at the end of chapters 3 to 6. Chapter 1 sets the scene for tax reform in Slovenia. Chapter 2 focuses on the labour market, social policy and tax policy related challenges. The ensuing chapters assess the financing of the social security system (Chapter 3), identify strategies to strengthen the design of personal income tax (Chapter 4), indirect taxes (Chapter 5), and the taxation of capital income at the individual level (Chapter 6).
Strengthening the taxation of capital income at the individual level
The recent move towards the automatic exchange of financial account information between tax administrations creates opportunities for Slovenia to revisit the way it taxes household savings. Tax rates on capital income at the individual level are not particularly high and effective tax rates on household savings vary widely across assets. Some assets, such as owner-occupied and rental immovable property and voluntary private pension savings, are taxed lightly. The capital income tax system lacks progressivity, which tends to be more common under dual income tax systems. Increasing the progressivity of the capital income tax system would require administrative reform as taxpayers would have to start declaring their capital income annually. Recurrent taxes on immovable property should also play a more significant role in the tax mix. The introduction of the new real estate tax is much-awaited as it creates opportunities to rebalance the tax mix and to reform the financing mix of local governments.
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