Microenterprise Tax

Rights for becoming a micro-enterprise exist to:

• individual merchant;
• individual enterprise, farms and fish farms;
• natural person, which is registered in the State Revenue Service (SRS) as a performer of economic activities;
• person is not a member of partnership;
• limited liability company.

Rights to choose to pay micro-enterprise tax exist, if the following criteria are complied with:

• income from economic activities — turnover — per calendar year does not exceed EUR 40 000;
• members of a limited liability company are only natural persons;
• board members of a limited liability company are only micro-enterprise employees;
• number of micro-enterprise employees at any time does not exceed five (number of employees does not include employees who are absent or dismissed);
• income of a micro-enterprise employee does not exceed EUR 720 per month.

A micro-enterprise is entitled to obtain the status of a micro-enterprise tax payer if it has agreed with all the employees of the micro-enterprise on the imposition of micro-enterprise tax in writing. This agreement may be included in the employment contract as an individual provision. 

A micro-enterprise which has chosen to pay micro-enterprise tax may not pay personal income tax or patent fee simultaneously for the income from economic activities.

An employee of a micro-enterprise tax payer shall not be entitled to apply the untaxed minimum and personal income tax exemptions for the period when he/she has been an employee of a micro-enterprise tax payer.

A natural person as an employee of a micro-enterprise tax payer may be employed only by one micro-enterprise at the same time.

The State Revenue Service shall not register a worker of a micro-enterprise as an employee in a micro-enterprise if he or she is already employed by another micro-enterprise.

When paying micro-enterprise tax, 80 % of micro-enterprise tax shall go to mandatory State social insurance contributions; thereby, they are considerably smaller than those which would be made according to the general procedure as a self-employed person, by applying the rate of 32,15 %, or as an employee, by applying the rate of 35,09% to the object of mandatory State social insurance contributions. That may considerably affect the amount of State social insurance services — pension and allowances.

The status of a micro-enterprise tax payer can be obtained:

• simultaneously with registration with the corresponding register of the Register of Enterprises, by applying for the status of a micro-enterprise tax payer;
• by a natural person at the same time with registration as a performer of economic activities, by submitting an application to the SRS for obtaining the status of a micro-enterprise tax payer;
• by a sole trader, individual enterprise, farm or fish farm, natural person registered as a performer of economic activities, or limited liability company by 15 December of the pre-taxation year, by submitting an application to the State Revenue Service.

The State Revenue Service, within five working days after the day an application on the status of a micro-enterprise tax payer was received, or after receiving information from the Register of Enterprises, makes a decision on the registration of a micro-enterprise tax payer or a decision on the rejection of registration, if the State Revenue Service has information at its disposal regarding that the applicant does not comply with the criteria specified in the Micro-enterprise Tax Law. 

The object of micro-enterprise tax is the turnover of micro-enterprise. The micro-enterprise tax rate in 2018 for the micro-enterprise turnover is 15%.

If the micro-enterprise did not have turnover in the taxation period (calendar year) or the calculated amount of the micro-enterprise tax does not exceed 50 euros, a micro-enterprise taxpayer shall pay the micro-enterprise tax into the budget in amount of 50 euros.

If the turnover of a micro-enterprise exceeds EUR 40 000 per year, a tax rate of 20 % shall be applied to the amount that exceeds the referred to turnover.

If the income of a micro-enterprise employee exceeds EUR 720 per month, a tax rate of 20% shall be applied to the amount that exceeds the referred to income.

If the number of employees in a micro-enterprise, which pays micro-enterprise tax, unjustifiably exceeds five employees per quarter, two percentage points for each additionally employed employee shall be applied to the applicable tax rate.

A micro-enterprise tax payer is entitled not to apply the increased micro-enterprise tax rate in the following cases:

• if its turnover of the taxation year has grown in comparison with the turnover of the pre-taxation year or the turnover of the year before the pre-taxation year, but the turnover growth does not exceed 30 % in comparison with the turnover of the pre-taxation year or the turnover of the year before the pre-taxation year;
• if the number of employees of a micro-enterprise within the taxation year exceeds five and the number of employees of the micro-enterprise in the taxation year has increased by one or two employees in comparison with the pre-taxation year and in the pre-taxation year in comparison with the year before the pre-taxation year.

A micro-enterprise pays micro-enterprise tax for the turnover of the taxation period four times a year for the turnover of each quarter by the 15th day of the month following after the quarter.

Micro-enterprise tax shall be paid to the State Treasury (reg. No. 90000050138, TRELLV22), to the following accounts of State budget revenues:

By the fifteenth day of month following the quarter, a micro-enterprise submits a Micro-enterprise Tax Declaration to the State Revenue Service.