Regulation on incentives for newly settled persons

20.May 2026. Ivana Radojicic

Serbia: Paradise for digital nomads or a fiscal Trojan horse

Due to the relatively low cost of living, good times, delicious food and strong internet, Serbia has placed itself at the very top of the European haven for digital professionals. However, in the background of this idyll, one of the most sophisticated legal and economic "experiments" is hidden.

The European Union is introducing a tax on carbon emissions (CBAM) from January 1.

Carbon dioxide

27.October 2025 B. B.

Carbon dioxide tax from January 1

From the beginning of 2026, Serbia is introducing a tax on carbon dioxide with the aim of reducing the impact of climate change

Carbon tax

24.October 2025 MLJ

A pollution tax is coming: Money is going into a bottomless budget hole

Serbian companies that produce electricity and other major polluters will pay an additional tax to the state from January 1. However, the authorities have not yet passed all the necessary laws that would make this possible, and there is no provision for control of the money that the state will collect.

Tax

05.July 2025 NR

A man bit a dog: Billionaires paid taxes!

The family of multi-billionaire Heinz Hermann Thiele paid four billion euros in inheritance tax in Bavaria - because they did not perform tax-evading tricks in time

Elon Musk and Donald Trump: Friends, then enemies, then friends again

United States

02.July 2025 MM

What does Trump's mega-law bring?

Thanks to Trump's new law, the rich could only get richer, and more people on food stamps would have to work to keep their benefits

Tatjana Vukić and Alksandar Vučić

Law

31.October 2024 S.Ć.

Vista Rica helps the SNS rich to be even richer

With the laws that encourage investments in alternative investment funds, Serbia has enabled the richest citizens to practically cut their tax obligations in half, leaving the possibility for abuses.

Religion and the state

07.September 2024 Mila Jovanovic

State and churches in Serbia: financing of the SPC under the veil of secrecy

Church finances in Serbia have always been considered a carefully guarded secret. Budget funds from the state coffers go to the Serbian Orthodox Church indirectly, usually through projects. Religious analyst Draško Đenović explains for "Vreme" that with huge expenditures and donations, the state is actually paying back the debt to the church for property that was confiscated a long time ago.

Davos

19.January 2024 DW

Billionaires and millionaires demand: Tax us more!

It sounds like news from the reverse cosmos - hundreds of rich people, big capitalists and their heirs asked the world leaders in Davos for higher taxes. They say the world is going to hell because of more and more inequality

Illustration

Economy

28.December 2023 Sanja Zrnić

"Freelancer" work: Disenfranchised full-fledged taxpayers

The tax system in Serbia still does not recognize freelancers as a separate category. They are counted as entrepreneurs, although they are not taxed in the same way. People who do this work say that it is very difficult to survive, because as workers they have almost no rights