The new tax will be in the amount of 0.2% of the balance sheet of banks’ total for a period of five years and will be proposed by the government along other measures affecting the banking sector, the finance ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
The proposal was formulated following consultations with the Slovenian central bank under the guidelines of the European Central Bank (ECB) and collected funds will be provided to the Slovenian Reconstruction Fund, SOS Fund. The government will take into account the voluntary payments to the SOS Fund already made by banks.
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