PANews reported on April 18 that according to Fxstreet, Slovenia plans to impose a 25% tax on personal cryptocurrency profits from 2026, which will be levied on January 1, 2026, pending public feedback and parliamentary approval. The draft law proposed by the country's Ministry of Finance on Thursday aims to align the treatment of crypto assets with other investment tools such as stocks, bonds and mutual funds. Currently, Slovenian law taxes cryptocurrency income earned by companies, but individual investors are in a legal gray area and are able to make huge profits tax-free. The proposed changes are intended to end this difference and establish a more balanced framework for capital gains on various types of assets.
According to the Ministry of Finance, the new rules will apply to profits from exchanging cryptocurrencies for fiat currencies such as the euro or using them to purchase goods and services. However, according to the new guidelines, exchanges between cryptocurrencies (such as exchanging Bitcoin for Ethereum) will remain tax-free, considering the technical complexity and impracticality of taxing such transactions. Notably, Slovenia's cryptocurrency regulation proposal excludes security tokens, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), electronic money tokens, and NFTs from the scope of taxable assets. The government estimates that this tax reform could increase the state budget by 2.5 million to 25 million euros per year.
