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Originally Posted by CoreySteel
Hey.
Poker is not taxable here in Slovenia. Actually, there's no law for online poker per se, only for poker in general, which is taxed by casinos and not by the players. Therefor we do not pay any taxes.
On the other hand, it's not allowed to advertise (online) gambling products, if you do not have a license (only government companies have licenses - monopoly). That's why some ISPs had to block websites like bwin.com and pokerstars.com (about 2 years ago iirc). Which was no big deal really, you only needed to change DNSs to google ones and everything work just fine. Also sites changed its URLs to www2.bwin.com and pokerstars.eu/si anyway.
If you need any more info just shoot.
Hey
I am playing online poker professionally and moved to Slovenia because of taxes. This year will be my first time to fill tax declaration for 2014. CoreySteel could you please describe how does process work? Doctor Poker, please share you experience as well.
I understood that tax inspection will send me tax bill by post until 31.3.2015 . If I don't get it until 15.6.2015 I fill in tax declaration by myself. Taxes are estimated according to the information inspection has about transactions on my Slovene bank accounts. If I don't agree with their tax estimations I have 30 days period to protest and try to explain my vision.
So here are my questions:
Did you get tax bill with 0 as profit or you didn't get anything and had to self declare?
If tax bill was not 0 did you go to the inspection and explained something? And how?
Do you send money directly from PokerStars to your bank account? Do you keep your bank account in Slovenia?
Do you use Skrill? Skrill replied to me that their policy is not to provide any signed papers about my transactions.
I asked some accountant to contact tax inspection and to get info for me. (Info below is not precise as they told me to wait until arrival of their estimation)
But! The first question they asked was whether websites I play at are Slovene. If website is not registered in Slovenia, all my profits from poker should be classified as "6300 Preostali drugi dohodki". And if I fill in declaration like this (Napoved za odmero dohodnine 2014)
https://edavki.durs.si/OpenPortal/Co...w_Doh_Odm.aspx
It forces me to pay crazy more then 30% tax!
I have some laws on my side: "ki niso igre na srečo"
http://www.durs.gov.si/si/navodila_z...drugi_dohodki/
Hope for best.
I guess there can be some differences between websites too. For example
http://www.pokerstars.com/ is banned by MINISTRSTVO za FINANCE. Even though
http://www.pokerstars.eu/ does work. Do you know any details about PokerStars legislation in Slovenia? Did you provide such info to the tax office or they checked it without you? I play mostly at 888poker which is smaller. Could be extra pain with their registration in Slovenia.
Sorry for asking questions which can contain some of your personal info. I'v just registered account at 2+2 as was only reading forums before. So I do not have ability to PM to you yet, requested admins for it. Just in case, my email is
dinerodibuja@yandex.ru
I am nervous about possibility to pay 35% from my profits now. Would be super grateful for the info you can provide!