Ajpes launched an application for entering data into the register of beneficial owners. The Register of Beneficial Owners (RDL) is a database in which information on the beneficial owners is collected with the aim of ensuring the transparency of the ownership structures of business entities and preventing misuse of business entities for money laundering and terrorist financing.
Legal entities must register their beneficial owners in the RDL by January 19, 2018, or within eight days from the entry of the legal entity in the Business Register of Slovenia (PRS) or the tax register (applies to legal entities that are not entered in the PRS). Changes to the data on the actual owners must be entered within eight days of the change.
The establishment of the register is based on the Act on the Prevention of Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (ZPPDFT-1). Register of actual owners or natural persons who are the ultimate owner of the company, is established and will be managed by the Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Public Legal Records and Services (Ajpes).
Beneficial owners must be registered in the register by legal entities registered in the Business Register of Slovenia, as well as by foreign funds, foreign institutions or similar entities under foreign law that incur tax obligations in Slovenia during their business operations. The Slovenian State Holding and the Company for Managed Claims of Banks are also among the taxpayers who must determine this information.
It is not necessary to enter information about the actual owners in the register:
- one-person companies with limited liability (in which the sole shareholder is also the sole representative of the company),
- direct and indirect budget users and,
- business companies on an organized market where, in accordance with EU legislation or comparable international standards, they must comply with a disclosure requirement that ensures adequate transparency of ownership information.
More information at: AJPES