Between Entities damaged by transaction tax include, among other things, the Church, religious companies and legal entitieswhich derive their legal personality from churches and religious societies. The amendment to the Tax Tax Act, submitted by deputies of the Opposition Christian Union, has targeted to exempt these entities from paying the transaction tax. The bill of the National Council (NR) of the Slovak Republic did not move until the second reading on Tuesday.
These Subjects are not exempt from financial transactionsdespite their apparent public benefit, the submitters were underlined. The subject of their activities is very often the provision of social assistance, maintaining cultural values, promoting education, protection of human rights or organizing and mediation of volunteer activities. All of these are, according to opposition MPs, the goals that make them Some civic associations exempt from transaction tax. However, churches and religious societies are not liberated.
“This arises as absurd situations where, for example, the state sends contributions to the education of children at church schools by church school authorities, which further send them to individual church schools. However, these transactions must pay transaction tax from these transactions. The petitioners stated in the explanatory memorandum.
However, there are also situations in which it would be can be stated a violation of international contracts by which the Slovak Republic is boundsupplemented the petitioners of the proposal.
