Croatia public holidays 2026, VAT rate and tax data
Croatia: VAT rate 25% since 1 Mar 2012; 14 public holidays in 2026 (next: Svi sveti (All Saints' Day), 1 Nov 2026); corporate tax rate 18%; minimum wage 1050 EUR/month; policy interest rate 2.5%; inflation rate (CPI) 4.1%.
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{ "country": "HR", "series": "vat", "value": 25, "unit": "percent", "effective_from": "2012-03-01", "last_confirmed": "2026-07-31", "source": { "name": "Porezna uprava (Croatian Tax Administration), official PDV page", "url": "https://porezna-uprava.gov.hr/hr/pdv-3938/3938" } }
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Croatia public holidays 2026
14 days in 2026; next: Svi sveti (All Saints' Day) on 1 Nov 2026. Official source: Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i neradnim danima u Republici Hrvatskoj, Narodne novine… · last verified 30 Jul 2026
Fixed by law 14
| Date | Holiday | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan 2026 Thu | Nova godina (New Year's Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 6 Jan 2026 Tue | Bogojavljenje ili Sveta tri kralja (Epiphany) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 5 Apr 2026 Sun | Uskrs (Easter Sunday) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 6 Apr 2026 Mon | Uskrsni ponedjeljak (Easter Monday) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 1 May 2026 Fri | Praznik rada (Labour Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 30 May 2026 Sat | Dan državnosti (Statehood Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 4 Jun 2026 Thu | Tijelovo (Corpus Christi) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 22 Jun 2026 Mon | Dan antifašističke borbe (Anti-Fascist Struggle Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 5 Aug 2026 Wed | Dan pobjede i domovinske zahvalnosti i Dan hrvatskih branitelja (Victory, Homeland Thanksgiving and Croatian Defenders Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 15 Aug 2026 Sat | Velika Gospa (Assumption of Mary) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 1 Nov 2026 Sun | Svi sveti (All Saints' Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 18 Nov 2026 Wed | Dan sjećanja na žrtve Domovinskog rata i Dan sjećanja na žrtvu Vukovara i Škabrnje (Remembrance Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 25 Dec 2026 Fri | Božić (Christmas Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 26 Dec 2026 Sat | Sveti Stjepan (St Stephen's Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
2027 dates already held (14)
| Date | Holiday | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Jan 2027 Fri | Nova godina (New Year's Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 6 Jan 2027 Wed | Bogojavljenje ili Sveta tri kralja (Epiphany) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 28 Mar 2027 Sun | Uskrs (Easter Sunday) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 29 Mar 2027 Mon | Uskrsni ponedjeljak (Easter Monday) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 1 May 2027 Sat | Praznik rada (Labour Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 27 May 2027 Thu | Tijelovo (Corpus Christi) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 30 May 2027 Sun | Dan državnosti (Statehood Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 22 Jun 2027 Tue | Dan antifašističke borbe (Anti-Fascist Struggle Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 5 Aug 2027 Thu | Dan pobjede i domovinske zahvalnosti i Dan hrvatskih branitelja (Victory, Homeland Thanksgiving and Croatian Defenders Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 15 Aug 2027 Sun | Velika Gospa (Assumption of Mary) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 1 Nov 2027 Mon | Svi sveti (All Saints' Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 18 Nov 2027 Thu | Dan sjećanja na žrtve Domovinskog rata i Dan sjećanja na žrtvu Vukovara i Škabrnje (Remembrance Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 25 Dec 2027 Sat | Božić (Christmas Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
| 26 Dec 2027 Sun | Sveti Stjepan (St Stephen's Day) | Fixed by law | Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i… |
Status is read from the record: fixed by law follows from a standing rule (a fixed date or the Easter computus); confirmed is dated in the cited official calendar and not flagged provisional; estimated is provisional or moon-sighting dependent; substitute stands in for a statutory day that fell on a weekend or was moved. Hover a status for the reason.
Every current Croatia value
Rate schedules and breakdowns
Withholding tax rates
0–25% across 6 withholding taxes — no single rate · in force from 2023-10-12 · Official source: Porezna uprava - Porez na dobit, section 'Porez po odbitku', STOPA/IZNOS: '15%… · last verified 10 Aug 2026
Rates by payment type
| key | label | rate | applies to | effective from | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| dividends | Dividends and profit shares (dividende i udjeli u dobiti) | 10 | dividends and profit shares paid by domestic payers to foreign persons that are not natural persons | 2021-01-01 | Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o… |
| The rate was 12% until 31 December 2020; 10% applies from 1 January 2021. Exempt when paid to a qualifying associated EU/EEA parent company under the Parent-Subsidiary Directive implementation (čl. 31.a-31.f). | |||||
| interest | Interest (kamate) | 15 | interest paid by domestic payers to foreign persons that are not natural persons, subject to statutory exclusions for certain interest categories in članak 31 | — | Zakon o porezu na dobit, čl. 31 st. 6… |
| NO EFFECTIVE DATE IS SERVED for this rate: 15% is the long-standing general rate and no commencement date is stated on the sources relied on, so none is asserted. Exempt when paid to a qualifying associated EU/EEA company under the Interest and Royalties Directive implementation. | |||||
| royalties | Royalties and other intellectual-property rights (autorska prava i druga prava intelektualnog vlasništva) | 15 | royalties and other intellectual-property rights (reproduction rights, patents, licences, trademarks, designs or models, production processes and formulas, plans, industrial or scientific experience and similar rights) paid to foreign persons that are not natural persons | — | Zakon o porezu na dobit, čl. 31 st. 6… |
| NO EFFECTIVE DATE IS SERVED for this rate: 15% is the long-standing general rate and no commencement date is stated on the sources relied on. Exempt when paid to a qualifying associated EU/EEA company under the Interest and Royalties Directive implementation. | |||||
| foreign-performers | Performances of foreign performers (nastupi inozemnih izvođača) | 10 | fees for performances of foreign performers (artists, entertainers and sportspersons) where the fee is paid under contract to a foreign person that is not a natural person; no income-tax or contribution obligation then arises for the performer | 2021-01-01 | Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o… |
| The rate was 15% until 31 December 2020; 10% applies from 1 January 2021. | |||||
| services-market-research-consulting-audit | Market-research, tax- and business-consulting and audit services (general case) | 0 | market-research services, tax- and business-consulting services and audit services paid to foreign persons NOT in EU-blacklisted jurisdictions | 2023-10-12 | Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o… |
| RATE 0 IS DELIBERATE, NOT MISSING: until 11 October 2023 these services bore 15% withholding regardless of recipient jurisdiction; from 12 October 2023 (NN 114/23) withholding is no longer levied on them unless the recipient is in an EU-blacklisted jurisdiction, in which case… | |||||
| non-cooperative-jurisdictions | All fees and services paid into EU-blacklisted jurisdictions | 25 | all types of fees and services taxable under članak 31, plus market-research, tax- and business-consulting and audit services, when paid to persons seated or effectively managed in states on the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes | 2023-10-12 | Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Zakona o… |
| The rate was 20% until 11 October 2023; 25% applies from 12 October 2023 (NN 114/23). This punitive rate overrides the standard 10%/15% rates and reinstates withholding on the consulting/audit services when the recipient is in a listed jurisdiction. The applicable list is the EU… | |||||
Personal income tax
20–30% across 2 bands · in force from 2025-01-01 · Official source: Zakon o porezu na dohodak (NN 115/16 … 152/24), čl. 19 (annual threshold EUR… · last verified 10 Aug 2026
| min | max | rate |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 60000 | 20 |
| 60000 | — | 30 |
Variants
| Variant | Value | Applies to | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Statutory default rates (headline) | 2 entries | Any municipality or city that has not adopted its own rate decision (odluka) — čl. 19.a st. 5. In practice 542 of ~556 units sit at or restate these defaults. | — |
| Grad Zagreb | 2 entries | Taxpayers resident in the City of Zagreb. | Odluka o visini poreznih stopa… |
| Grad Split | 2 entries | Taxpayers resident in the City of Split. | Odluka Grada Splita, NN 150/23 as… |
| Grad Rijeka | 2 entries | Taxpayers resident in the City of Rijeka. | Odluka Grada Rijeke, NN 149/25… |
Statutory social-insurance contributions
5–20% across 4 contribution branches · in force from 2026-01-01 · Official source: Zakon o doprinosima: čl. 13 st. 1 (mirovinsko osiguranje 20 % / 15 %), čl. 14… · last verified 11 Aug 2026
| key | label | rate total | rate employee | rate employer | unit | base | currency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mirovinsko_i_stup | Doprinos za mirovinsko osiguranje na temelju generacijske solidarnosti — I. stup (first-pillar pay-as-you-go pension), member of both pillars | 15 | 15 | 0 | percent | Bruto plaća — the gross salary and other employment income of the insured person, capped at the najviša mjesečna osnovica of 11 958,00 euro per month for 2026 and at the najviša godišnja osnovica of 143 496,00 euro for the year. Reduced for low earners: where monthly gross pay does not exceed 700,00 euro the base is reduced by 300,00 euro; between 700,01 and 1 300,00 euro the reduction is (1 300 − gross) × 0,5; above 1 300,00 euro there is no reduction. | EUR |
| EMPLOYEE-BORNE. In Croatia the entire pension contribution comes out of the employee's gross pay ('iz plaće'); the employer's only contribution is health ('na plaću'). THE RATE DEPENDS ON PILLAR MEMBERSHIP, NOT ON AGE DIRECTLY: 15 % here presupposes that the employee is also a… | |||||||
| mirovinsko_ii_stup | Doprinos za mirovinsko osiguranje na temelju individualne kapitalizirane štednje — II. stup (mandatory funded second-pillar pension) | 5 | 5 | 0 | percent | The same bruto plaća base as the first pillar, capped at 11 958,00 euro per month for 2026, but WITHOUT the čl. 21.a low-pay base reduction — the second pillar is always computed on the full base. | EUR |
| NOT A CARVE-OUT AND NOT AN ADD-ON — IT IS A SPLIT. Croatia's total employee pension contribution is 20 % whether or not the employee is in the second pillar: either 20 % all to the first pillar, or 15 % + 5 %. An engine that adds 5 % on top of 20 % over-deducts by a quarter; one… | |||||||
| mirovinsko_i_stup_jedini | Doprinos za mirovinsko osiguranje — I. stup at the full rate, for a person insured in the first pillar only (no second-pillar membership) | 20 | 20 | 0 | percent | The same bruto plaća base, capped at 11 958,00 euro per month and 143 496,00 euro per year for 2026, and reduced by the čl. 21.a low-pay reduction on the same terms as the 15 % variant. | EUR |
| Served as a separate branch because it is a genuinely different rate on the same payslip line, not a variant of the 15 %. It applies to employees who were already insured before 1 January 2002 and did not opt into the second pillar, and to those who have exercised the statutory… | |||||||
| zdravstveno_osiguranje | Doprinos za obvezno zdravstveno osiguranje — mandatory health insurance, employer-borne, and the only employer contribution in the Croatian system | 16.5 | 0 | 16.5 | percent | The employee's bruto plaća, computed 'na osnovicu' — on top of gross pay, not deducted from it — WITHOUT the čl. 21.a low-pay base reduction and WITHOUT any maximum monthly or annual base. The najviša mjesečna and najviša godišnja osnovica apply to pension contributions only. | EUR |
| THIS SINGLE 16,5 % IS THE WHOLE EMPLOYER SIDE OF CROATIAN PAYROLL. There is no employer pension contribution, no separate unemployment contribution and no separate work-injury contribution. Employer cost is therefore exactly gross × 1,165 — for the 2026 minimum wage of 1 050,00… | |||||||
Late-payment interest (EU Late Payment Directive)
10.4 percent · in force from 2026-07-01 · Official source: Derived from the ECB main refinancing rate (this API's… · last verified 27 Oct 2026 derived
Resolved rates
| key | label | spread | value | article | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| directive | EU Late Payment Directive statutory rate (reference + 8pp) | 8 | 10.4 | Directive 2011/7/EU, art. 2(6)-(7) | Directive 2011/7/EU on combating late… |
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