Coalition shifts tax-related proposals to May parliamentary session

Economic and social proposals sponsored by the ruling Smer-SD, Slovak National Party (SNS) and Most-Hid will be shifted to the May parliamentary session, with parliament deciding so based on a proposal from the three caucuses at the session that opened on Tuesday. This applies to 16 points on the agenda of the parliamentary session. The shifted points include, for example, a proposal for reducing corporate tax, the introduction of 10-percent VAT on foodstuffs, scrapping TV and radio licence fees and a proposal for scrapping a fee for changing surnames after marriage. The shift also concerns proposals for increasing the non-taxable part of the tax base and reducing the levy for the reserve solidarity fund by 4 percentage points in the case of employers, the self-employed and voluntarily insured people.