Area: Working law
Competent authority: MDDSZ, MF
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 1020
Initiative accepted and completed: '2020-04-24'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2020-04-15'
Initiative published: '2020-04-15'
Initiative submitted: '2020-04-15'
Response from the competent authority: "Reply from the Ministry of Labour, Family,\
  \ Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities:Part-time self-employed activity due to\
  \ parenthood and eligibility for measures under ZIUZEOPIn relation to petition No\
  \ 1020, submitted via the STOPbirokraciji.si portal, concerning eligibility for\
  \ measures under the Act on intervention measures to contain the COVID-19 epidemic\
  \ and mitigate its consequences for citizens and the economy (Official Gazette of\
  \ the RS, No. 49/20; hereafter: ZIUZEOP) for the self-employed who work part-time\
  \ due to parenthood, we provide below a clarification from the point of view of\
  \ the competences of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Ministry of\
  \ Labour and Social Policy, regarding other measures to help self-employed entrepreneurs\
  \ cope with the economic situation (e.g. We would like to point out that these fall\
  \ within the competence of the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology and\
  \ the Ministry of Finance.The ZIUZEOP regulates various measures for different categories\
  \ of self-employed persons, individuals, employers, etc. In accordance with Article\
  \ 38 of the Act, the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology and the Ministry\
  \ of Finance are responsible for the implementation of the measures for self-employed\
  \ persons. Thus, a self-employed person who is covered by compulsory insurance solely\
  \ on the basis of Article 15 of the ZPIZ-2 and who does not also meet the conditions\
  \ for compulsory coverage on any other basis may also be eligible for exemption\
  \ from the payment of contributions under Article 38 of the ZIUZEOP. Since a self-employed\
  \ person who claims the right to part-time work under the rules governing parental\
  \ care and parental insurance is covered by compulsory pension and invalidity insurance\
  \ on several grounds, he/she does not qualify for exemption from contributions under\
  \ the measures currently adopted.\r\nAs no measures have been adopted under the\
  \ umbrella intervention law for the category of insured persons thus exposed, which\
  \ would have meant a certain mitigation of the consequences of the epidemic for\
  \ them, we at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour and Social Security, within\
  \ the scope of our competences, have examined the content of the ZIUZEOP also from\
  \ the point of view of the payment of parental care contributions and have proposed\
  \ amendments to the law just adopted. The Government of the Republic of Slovenia\
  \ has already adopted a plan to prepare new guidelines with a set of measures to\
  \ mitigate the consequences of the \"corona\" epidemic for citizens and the economy,\
  \ which should include coordinated proposals for measures that will also cover the\
  \ groups that were left out of the first package of laws.Reply from the Ministry\
  \ of Finance:On the basis of the Act on intervention measures in the field of wages\
  \ and contributions, self-employed persons who have no other employees and whose\
  \ self-employment is the sole basis for their inclusion in compulsory social insurance\
  \ have been granted an automatic deferral of contributions due in April (20.4.2008).\
  \ The deferral of contributions was automatic, meaning that the taxable person did\
  \ not have to apply for it. The deferred contributions must be paid by the beneficiary\
  \ by 31 March 2022 at the latest. A self-employed person is not eligible for the\
  \ proposed measure if he/she had outstanding liabilities due by 28 February 2020\
  \ of more than EUR 50 and had not settled them by 6 April 2020.\r\nHowever, under\
  \ the Act on Intervention Measures to Curb the COVID-19 Epidemic and Mitigate its\
  \ Consequences for Citizens and the Economy, self-employed persons, farmers, partners\
  \ and religious servants may be exempted from paying contributions for March (from\
  \ 13 March to 31 March 2020), April and May if they submit a special declaration\
  \ via eTaxes. The declaration is the same as for the allocation of the monthly basic\
  \ income. The conditions are set out in the declaration itself.The contribution\
  \ exemption can be claimed for the months of March from 13 March to 31 March 2020\
  \ (due on 20 April 2020), April (due on 20 May 2020) and May 2020 (due on 20 June\
  \ 2020). If they wish to claim exemption for March and April contributions, they\
  \ must send a declaration via eTaxes by 30 April 2020 and for May contributions\
  \ by 31 May 2020 at the latest (all of these can be ticked on one declaration).\
  \ A self-employed person is not eligible for the proposed measure if he/she has\
  \ outstanding tax liabilities at the date of submission of the declaration.With\
  \ regard to the proposal that self-employed persons who are also on parental care\
  \ should also be entitled to the monthly basic income, we would like to clarify\
  \ that the Government of the Republic of Slovenia has adopted a proposal for an\
  \ amendment to the Act on intervention measures to curb the COVID-19 epidemic and\
  \ to mitigate its consequences for citizens and the economy, where it has also addressed\
  \ these cases in such a way that in these cases self-employed persons would be entitled\
  \ to a pro-rata part of the monthly basic income. The Bill has been forwarded to\
  \ the National Assembly for legislative procedure."
Text file: 1020.txt
Title: COVID-19 Exempt s.p. contributions and entitlement to basic income
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=1020
