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Database on financing apprenticeships in the EU

Financing Apprenticeships DB

  • Introduction
  • Overview – mapping
  • Financing of apprenticeship schemes
  • Financing instruments
  • Cross-country overview
  • Cross-country comparison
  • Scope and glossary
  • Feedback
  • Advanced search

Tax incentives

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Financing instrument
Name of the instrument in English
Tax incentives
Country
Croatia
Type of instrument
Tax incentives
Level of operation
National
Part of the country where the instrument applies

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Region(s) in which the instrument applies

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Sector(s) in which the instrument applies

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Legal basis

The Act on State Aid for Education and Training (Official Gazette 109/07, 134/07, 152/08, 14/2014)

Objective(s) and target(s)

To provide tax breaks for businesses whose manufacturing facilities or workshops are used to provide practical training and exercises for students training in trades and crafts. This provides businesses with the possibility to reduce the basis for the calculation of income tax or self-employment tax by the amount of awards paid to students for attending practical apprenticeship training exercise.

Year of introduction
2007
Year of termination
No foreseen end to the instrument (on-going)
Governance (management, operation, monitoring and evaluation)

The Ministry of Finance is responsible for the overall management of the instrument. Tax administration is responsible for day-to-day operation and monitoring and evaluation.

Eligible group(s)

All companies

Education and training eligible

The instrument supports apprenticeship and other types of education and training. It applies to EQF 3-5 levels.

Source of financing and collection mechanism

State (loss of tax revenue)

Financing formula and allocation mechanisms

Entrepreneurs that have one to three students undertaking practical training and exercises at their premises may reduce their income tax base or self-employment income tax base by 5%. An entrepreneur that has more than three students undertaking practical training and exercises can increase the reduction of his tax base by one percentage point per student but not exceeding 15% for overall deduction.

Eligible costs

Apprentice remuneration, costs of materials, technical resources

Volumes of funding

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Beneficiaries/take up

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Monitoring/evaluation reports available

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Sources

Ministry of Finance, http://www.mfin.hr/en

Tax Administration, Ministry of Finance, https://www.porezna-uprava.hr/en/Pages/default.aspx

FINA (Croatian Financial Agency) gathers financial reports from all economic operators in the country. It might be a potential source for data/statistics on the volumes of funding involved and beneficiaries but this data/calculations/research would need to be requested and paid for since it is not publicly available.

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