Danko: SNS Will Insist on Adjusting Transaction Tax

Bratislava, April 15 (TASR) - The coalition Slovak National Party (SNS) insists on exempting sole traders and small companies with a turnover of up to €100,000 from the transaction tax, SNS chairman Andrej Danko said at a press conference on Tuesday, adding that SNS will ask its coalition partners to reconsider its intention, while SNS also believes that the entire tax should be scrapped. "After the introduction of the transaction tax, we repeatedly tried to convince the Finance Ministry to withdraw from this transaction tax against sole traders and small entrepreneurs with a turnover of up to €100,000," said Danko, adding that the transaction tax disrupts the business of this group of people and causes them difficulties. According to him, if Finance Minister Ladislav Kamenicky (Smer-SD) agreed to scrap the transaction tax for sole traders and small companies, the state budget would lose several tens of millions of euros. He added that the government shouldn't lack this money, as Slovakia had a reserve of €400 million when drawing up the state budget for this year. Danko stressed that the transaction tax is burdensome for sole traders and small companies, and he discussed this issue with Finance Ministry State Secretary Radovan Majersky, who admitted that the Finance Ministry can imagine adjustments in this tax for certain groups of people. am