Slovenia
Slovenia: 2 company types, its taxes, banking and business environment, and what it is known for.
Forming a company
Company types in Slovenia
The 2 forms a founder can choose here, each with its own figures. Open one for its sources.
What it is known for
Where Slovenia is in the world’s top 10 on a measure anyone can check, the best rank first. Only the top is shown; a low rank is never stated.
- World’s8thKnowledge-intensive economy Economic Complexity Index1.28 of 142 economies · 2024 Harvard Growth Lab, Atlas of Economic Complexity (CC0) See the top 10
A rank is among everything the source reports for that year, so it moves when the source adds or drops economies. Exports include goods passing through for re-export. Nothing here is a recommendation.
Doing business here
Business accounts
Providers whose own published list of countries names Slovenia. A listing means a company formed here may apply, not that it will be accepted.
Not in our records No provider's country list has been read for Slovenia.
EU listings
Two lists a bank checks when it opens an account for a company or its owner.
- EU high-risk third countries (AML)
- Not listed
- EU non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes
- Not listedOfficial EUR-Lex, 52026XG01465, Annex I as of 2026-02-17
Official sites
The authorities’ own sites for Slovenia: where to register, file and check.
Blocs and agreements
The trade arrangements Slovenia belongs to, as each arrangement’s own texts state them: since when, and what each covers. What a membership means for a business is for you to judge.
- European Union: internal market and customs union
- Single market · since 2004
Covers goods, services, establishment, capital, movement of people, a common external tariff.
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EU Member State since 2004, Euro area and Schengen area member since 2007 and more about Slovenia’s participation in the EU.
- European Union: VAT territory
- Inside it
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‘Community’ and ‘territory of the Community’ mean the territories of the Member States as defined in point (2);
- Euro area
- Monetary union · since 2007
Covers a common currency.
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EU Member State since 2004, Euro area and Schengen area member since 2007 and more about Slovenia’s participation in the EU.
- Schengen area
- Free movement area · since 2007
Covers movement of people.
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EU Member State since 2004, Euro area and Schengen area member since 2007 and more about Slovenia’s participation in the EU.
- European Economic Area
- Single market
Covers goods, movement of people, services, establishment, capital.
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which now covers the EU and its 27 Member States, and three of the four EFTA members: Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
Regional and customs arrangements only, 36 of them; bilateral trade agreements are not yet in our records.
Tax
Company tax
Tax, and what the company owes the registry each year.
- Corporate income tax
- 22%
- Distributions
- Not in our records
- Audit
- Not in our records
- Small-company relief
- Not in our records
- Annual obligations
- Not in our records
- Annual registry fee
- EUR 44.1Official The registry or ministry page as of 2026-10-15
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Letno poročilo, predloženo na poenotenih obrazcih na elektronski način
VAT
The tax on what the company sells in Slovenia, and when it must register, as the tax authority states it.
- Standard rate
- 22%Official European Commission, Taxes in Europe Database situation on 2026/07/01
Tax calendar
When the main returns and payments fall due in Slovenia, tax year 2025, as the tax authority states it.
- Corporate tax return
- 3 months after the end of the accounting period · each year
The return is filed within three months after the end of the tax period, i.e. by 31 March for a calendar year; a business year is also allowed.
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Zavezanec mora obračun DDPO za preteklo koledarsko leto predložiti najpozneje v treh mesecih po poteku koledarskega leta (torej najpozneje do 31. marca)
- Corporate tax, final payment
- 4 months after the end of the accounting period · each year
The balance is paid within 30 days after the return is submitted; since the return is due within three months of the year end, the latest date is four months after the year end.
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Razliko za doplačilo davka mora zavezanec plačati v 30-tih dneh po predložitvi obračuna
- Corporate tax, instalments
- Set each year by decree · each month
The Financial Administration's tax calendar lists the monthly DDPO advance-payment dates for 2026: the 20th of each month, moved to the next working day where the 20th is a weekend (22 June, 21 September, 21 December 2026). It also lists a separate quarterly instalment for payers with a calendar tax year (20 January, 20 April, 20 July, 20 October 2026), and a catch-up payment on 20 April for January and February where the previous year's return was filed in March. The shift to the next working day is read from the dates listed, not from a rule stated on the page.
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20. 5. 2026 00:00 Plačilo obroka akontacije davka od dohodkov pravnih oseb (DDPO) 22. 6. 2026 00:00 Plačilo obroka akontacije davka od dohodkov pravnih oseb (DDPO) 20. 7. 2026 00:00
- Personal income-tax return
- 31 July · each year
The 2025 return is due 31 July 2026, per the FURS calendar of important dates.
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31. 7. 2026 00:00 Napoved za odmero dohodnine za leto 2025
- Personal income tax, final payment
- 1 June · each year
The balance is collected in two tranches: the first by 1 June 2026 and the second by 29 July 2026. The rule records the first.
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1. 6. 2026 00:00 Doplačilo dohodnine (prva tranša IID za leto 2025)
- Personal income tax, instalments
- Day 20 of the following month · each month
Advance payments are made monthly, each due by the 20th of the following month; the page's worked example puts the January and February instalments with the March payment, i.e. by 20 April.
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razliko za obrok akontacije za januar in februar plačati hkrati s plačilom obroka (novega) za mesec marec, t.j. do 20. 4
- VAT return
- Day 31 of the following month · each month
Monthly return, due on the last day of the month following the tax period. The FURS calendar shows the deadline moved back to the previous working day when the last day is a weekend: 27 February 2026 for January (28 February is a Saturday) and 29 May 2026 for April (31 May is a Sunday). The rule stores day 31 as 'last day of the month'.
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27. 2. 2026 00:00 Obračun davka na dodano vrednost (DDV-O) 27. 2. 2026 00:00 Poročilo o dobavah (PD-O) 20. 3. 2026 00:00 Rekapitulacijsko poročilo (RP-O)
- Payroll withholding
- Day 18 of the following month · each month
The withholding calculation for salaries paid in the previous month is due on the 18th of the following month; FURS's calendar shows 19 January 2026 (18 January is a Sunday) and 20 April 2026 (18 April is a Saturday), i.e. the next working day.
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19. 1. 2026 00:00 Obračun davčnega odtegljaja za izplačane plače za pretekli mesec 18. 2. 2026 00:00 Obračun davčnega odtegljaja za izplačane plače za pretekli mesec
Running the company
Running a company here
Not in our records The authorities’ pages on running a company have not been read for Slovenia yet.
Economy and trade
What it exports
Goods Slovenia exported, by product, as a share of its goods exports each year. Exports include goods passing through for re-export. A share describes Slovenia’s own trade; it does not compare places.
| Product (HS heading) | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Value, 2024 |
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| Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings for retail sale HS 3004 | 18.5% | 29.1% | 35.3% | US$24 bn |
| Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 8702), including station wagons and racing cars HS 8703 | 6.5% | 5.6% | 5.2% | US$3.5 bn |
| Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils HS 2710 | 4.2% | 3.3% | 2.8% | US$1.9 bn |
| Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products, whether or not modified or obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products; cell cultures, whether or not modified HS 3002 | 1.8% | 1.7% | 2.3% | US$1.6 bn |
| Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of headings 8701 to 8705 HS 8708 | 2.5% | 2.5% | 2.2% | US$1.5 bn |
| Electrical energy HS 2716 | 3.5% | 1.8% | 2.0% | US$1.4 bn |
| Electric instantaneous or storage water heaters and immersion heaters; electric space-heating apparatus and soil-heating apparatus; electrothermic hairdressing apparatus (for example, hairdryers, hair curlers, curling tong heaters) and hand dryers; electric smoothing irons; other electrothermic appliances of a kind used for domestic purposes; electric heating resistors, other than those of heading 8545 HS 8516 | 1.2% | 0.96% | 1.0% | US$688 m |
| New pneumatic tyres, of rubber HS 4011 | 0.97% | 1.0% | 0.98% | US$663 m |
| Monitors and projectors, not incorporating television reception apparatus; reception apparatus for television, whether or not incorporating radio-broadcast receivers or sound or video recording or reproducing apparatus HS 8528 | 0.73% | 0.80% | 0.89% | US$604 m |
| Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles HS 8512 | 0.85% | 0.82% | 0.71% | US$482 m |
Total goods exports, 2024: US$67.8 bn. The ten largest headings are shown.