The Ministry of Finance has issued the Guidelines on Amendments to the Guidelines on the Method of Calculating and Paying Taxes and Contributions on Personal Earnings from Employment (“Official Gazette of Montenegro,” No. 103/24, dated October 25, 2024).

Amendments were made to the Guidelines on the Method of Calculating and Paying Taxes and Contributions on Personal Earnings from Employment (“Official Gazette of Montenegro,” Nos. 81/06, 4/10, 8/13, 2/15, 9/15, 9/16, 10/17, 15/19, 46/19, and 3/22):

In Article 4: 2.2. Calculation of Contributions from Personal Earnings
Article 4
From the employee’s personal earnings, the following contributions are calculated:

  1. Pension and disability insurance at a rate of 10.0% (previously 15.0%);
  2. Unemployment insurance at a rate of 0.5%.

In Article 5: 3.1. Calculation of Contributions on Personal Earnings
Article 5
On the employee’s personal earnings, the following contributions are calculated:

  1. Pension and disability insurance at a rate of 0% (previously 5.5%);
  2. Unemployment insurance at a rate of 0.5%;
  3. Labor Fund at a rate of 0.2%.

The base for calculating contributions on personal earnings is the gross personal income, which is the same as the base used for calculating contributions from personal earnings. The base for calculating contributions from paragraph 1 of this article is the employee’s gross personal income.

These guidelines take effect the day following their publication in the “Official Gazette of Montenegro.”

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