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Tax and levy optimisation

We provide our clients with comprehensive advice on optimizing their business from the tax and tax, as well as legal and accounting aspects. We design the optimization individually so that it is defensible and takes into account all practical implications of individual business models.

Patent Box and Optimization for Technology Companies – Highgate

Slovakia offers a great opportunity for IT companies and innovative businesses to reduce their tax burden. Patent Box allows companies that develop software or other ...

Setting up a Cypriot structure for tax purposes

Our eighteenth video podcast in the Highgate Talks series is the first to be filmed entirely in English. Our guest is Petros Rialas, CEO of ...

A few tips on how to survive a tax audit

How to survive a tax audit? Some tips provided by Peter Varga for The Slovak Spectator. Read the full article here: If you are interested ...
Ako legalne optimalizovat dane

How to legally optimize taxes – Peter Varga for HN

Tax benefits can be achieved by setting up efficient corporate structures such as holding companies or by managing accounting processes correctly. Peter Varga, partner at ...

Bitcoin will not be affected by the transaction tax. How to tax cryptocurrencies?

Why can some actions of taxpayers aimed at avoiding scrutiny by the tax authorities be seen as fully legitimate? And how does the state approach ...

Tax changes 2025

Webinar | Summary of tax news from 2025 on VAT, income tax and financial transaction tax and how to effectively counter (optimize) the increasing taxes. ...

Tax optimization – Slovak and foreign possibilities – Highgate

Even today, not only large multinational giants such as Google, Facebook or Apple, but also small Slovak companies. These, even to save tens of percent ...

Problems and challenges of the current tax system in the Slovak Republic

In the fifteenth episode of the Highgate Talks video podcasts, our guest is Peter Pašek, tax advisor and partner of the Slovak branch of Accace, ...

Ivan Mikloš with Peter Varga on tax reform

In the fourteenth episode of the Highgate Talks video podcast series, our guest was former Finance Minister Ivan Mikloš, who, together with our partner Peter ...

Taxation of income from the sale of immovable property

This issue is relatively broad and Highgate addresses it comprehensively with regard to tax optimisation and legal structuring options. Some of the topics were discussed ...
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Setting up a Cypriot structure for tax purposes

Our eighteenth video podcast in the Highgate Talks series is the first to be filmed entirely in English. Our guest is Petros Rialas, CEO of ...

Problems and challenges of the current tax system in the Slovak Republic

In the fifteenth episode of the Highgate Talks video podcasts, our guest is Peter Pašek, tax advisor and partner of the Slovak branch of Accace, ...

Ivan Mikloš with Peter Varga on tax reform

In the fourteenth episode of the Highgate Talks video podcast series, our guest was former Finance Minister Ivan Mikloš, who, together with our partner Peter ...
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A few tips on how to survive a tax audit

How to survive a tax audit? Some tips provided by Peter Varga for The Slovak Spectator. Read the full article here: If you are interested ...
Ako legalne optimalizovat dane

How to legally optimize taxes – Peter Varga for HN

Tax benefits can be achieved by setting up efficient corporate structures such as holding companies or by managing accounting processes correctly. Peter Varga, partner at ...

Bitcoin will not be affected by the transaction tax. How to tax cryptocurrencies?

Why can some actions of taxpayers aimed at avoiding scrutiny by the tax authorities be seen as fully legitimate? And how does the state approach ...

Highgate Law & Tax and its double triumph in the prestigious Law Firm of the Year competition

Highgate Law & Tax has once again scored an outstanding success in the prestigious Law Firm of the Year competition, where it has maintained its ...

Real Estate – Taxes and Financing Conference (Unique conference on fund and tax structures, crowdfunding, bonds, bank financing, etc.)

We welcomed more than 200 attendees to our largest conference to date, which focused on real estate financing through various regulatory and tax structures. We ...

Highgate Law & Tax named Tax Law Firm of the Year 2023

Highgate Law & Tax participated in the prestigious Law Firm of the Year competition, the only one of its kind in Slovakia, which is attended ...

Highgate Law & Tax: failure to allow VAT deductions can put a business on the back foot. Peter Varga’s statement for HOSPODÁRSKE NOVINY

In practice, there are several reasons for not granting the right to deduct VAT. The standard ones are that the entity on the invoice did ...

Taxpayers unfairly do not recognize VAT deductions for companies and want the impossible from them. They also go against EU principles – Interview by Petr Varga for TREND

You can read in the interview with Peter Varga for TREND about the cases in which the tax administrator rejects the claim for VAT deduction ...

Conference on legal and tax optimization for technology companies

In November, we organized a big event at the Marriott Hotel in Bratislava business conference dealing with legal and tax issues for entrepreneurs from a ...

Lecture by Peter Varga on tax optimization options

In November 2022, Peter Varga gave a lecture for clients of the educational company SEMINARIA on the possibilities of tax optimization. The lecture was attended ...
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Real Estate – Taxes and Financing

Both small and larger Slovak or foreign investment funds investing in real estate enjoy constant high attention among Slovaks. However, in addition to setting up ...

Tax and legal optimization for digital / IT companies (28.11. and 29.11.2022)

We advise a large number of Slovak start-ups and existing digital and IT companies in the areas of law, tax and accounting. We have a ...

Does “Dank’s 15% tax” bring new opportunities for tax optimization?

In September, 131 Members of Parliament voted in favour of a reduction in income tax for companies and individuals with a turnover of up to ...

How to be legally and tax efficient?

The advertising, digital, PR and event services business is different in a number of ways from traditional business sectors. In most cases, creative content creation ...

Tax optimization for IT companies – conference

Boundaries are blurring and distances are becoming more relative. IT business is perhaps most affected by the increasing globalisation and positive technological developments. A Slovak ...

Tax changes 2025

Webinar | Summary of tax news from 2025 on VAT, income tax and financial transaction tax and how to effectively counter (optimize) the increasing taxes. ...

VAT turnover overrun – legal and tax risks – 2020

Spinning off non-DPA firms can have criminal implications Our accounting clients enjoy a 75% discount. To obtain a promo code please contact beata.vojtkova@highgate.sk

Tax optimization for IT companies – recording from the session of our big conference on tax optimization for IT and marketing companies – 2022

This is a recording of an 80-minute lecture from our conference on legal and tax optimization for technology companies (more info here), which we organized ...

Software contracts with customers – legal and practical pitfalls – recording from the session of our big conference on tax optimization for IT and marketing companies – 2022

This is a recording of a 55-minute lecture from our conference on legal and tax optimization for technology companies (more info here), which we organized ...

IT business abroad, holding and offshore companies, legal and tax implications – a recording from the session of our big conference on tax optimization for IT and marketing companies – 2022

This is a recording of an 80-minute lecture from our conference on legal and tax optimization for technology companies (more info here), which we organized ...

Doing business in a crypt – tax risks and what to watch out for? – recording from the session of our big conference on tax optimization for IT and marketing companies – 2022

This is a recording of a 55-minute lecture from our conference on legal and tax optimization for technology companies (more info here), which we organized ...

Foreign IT contractors (withholding taxes) and working from “Bali” (tax and levy implications) – a recording from the session of our big conference on tax optimization for IT and marketing companies – 2022

This is a recording of a 45-minute lecture from our conference on legal and tax optimization for technology companies (more info here), which we organized ...

Is it even worth having an offshore company today? Ak áno, komu a kedy? – 2020

Who else is an offshore firm worthwhile for today and what are the pitfalls? Our accounting clients get a 75% discount. Please contact beata.vojtkova@highgate.sk to ...

“Paying for holidays with a company card” – what about the law and taxes? – 2021

It is still a phenomenon in business practice to use company money or other assets for private purposes. Our accounting clients enjoy a 75% discount. ...

SRO or sole proprietorship – a comprehensive view from the perspective of taxes, levies and legal liability – 2022

In this training, we discuss in great detail the comparison of the tax and levy burden of a one-person SRO and the so-called "single-person SRO". ...
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  • Continuous legal and tax advisory services to the most well-known foreign digital platform in Slovakia in relation to various innovative business models;
  • Continuous legal and tax advisory services for a wide range of Slovak innovative companies in connection with setting up business structure, tax optimization (use of effective tax regimes), cross-border activities, establishment of companies abroad, asset protection, etc;
  • Regular legal and tax advice to small (including “sole proprietorships”), medium-sized and larger companies in connection with adjusting their tax burden;
  • Comprehensive legal and tax advisory services to a Slovak property development group in connection with its internal reorganisation, including mergers, transfer pricing, establishment of foreign structures, etc;
  • Tax advice to a healthcare group in connection with various healthcare VAT regimes, a group reorganisation and day-to-day operational tax implications;
  • Tax and regulatory advisory services to a Slovak bank in setting up and creating a new innovative product for early payment of wages, including advising on VAT aspects of such a business model and the possibility of applying the Patent Box preferential tax regime;
  • Comprehensive tax and tax advisory services (income tax, VAT, obligations in connection with the establishment of a permanent establishment, payroll advisory services) in connection with the change of the distribution model of a global cosmetics brand;
  • Tax advice to an international payment institution on a minor reorganisation of its group.

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