Methodology — Slovakia

Two engines, one shared input shape.

The Slovakia state-fee calculator encodes zákon SNR č. 71/1992 Zb. o súdnych poplatkoch a poplatku za výpis z registra trestov together with its Sadzobník súdnych poplatkov (Príloha č. 1), in the consolidated form v znení zákona č. 530/2023 Z. z. — the konsolidačný balík that lifted every Sadzobník amount by 40–54 % with effect from 1.4.2024. Adjacent statutes — zákon č. 233/1995 Z. z. (exekútorský poriadok), the notársky poriadok, the Sadzobník správnych poplatkov (zák. č. 145/1995 Z. z.) and zákon č. 314/2018 Z. z. o Ústavnom súde — are out of scope; the Ústavný-súd statute surfaces only as the out_of_scope note for constitutional complaints.

The lawyer-fee side encodes the advokátska tarifa (vyhláška č. 655/2004 Z. z.), v znení novely 391/2023 Z. z. účinnej od 1.1.2024. The tarifa is the default cost-recovery scaleA tariff used to decide how much of the winner's legal costs the losing party must reimburse — distinct from what the lawyer privately charges the client.Glossary → under zák. č. 586/2003 Z. z. § 24 — not a binding floorA tariff floor a court could once not go below. Several EU jurisdictions abandoned binding minimums after CJEU rulings; where that has happened, the same figures now serve only as reference values.Glossary →. Tarifo presents it throughout the UI as a reference valueA tariff figure that is advisory, not mandatory — a guide to what a fee customarily is, which the lawyer and client remain free to depart from. Every number Tarifo shows is a reference value.Glossary →, not a binding minimum, and the disclaimer copy under the result panel makes that explicit.

State court fees fall into four shapes.

Položka 1 a) — capped percentage

The dominant shape for monetary filings. 6 % of the claim value, with a 25 € floor and a 25 000 € cap (commercial matters: 50 000 € cap). The cap is hard — a 1 000 000 € claim is billed at 25 000 €, not 60 000 €. Položka 1 b) (non-monetary): flat 140 €.

Flat amounts

Položka 2 interim measure 50 €; Položka 6 marital-property division filing 100 €; Položka 7 divorce 100 € (with a ½ refund if withdrawn after the first hearing); Položka 14 enforcement initiation 25 € regardless of claim size; administrative-judiciary first instance 70 € (kasačná sťažnosť 140 € — 2 × Sadzobník).

§ 6 electronic-filing discount

Any fee filed by certified electronic means is reduced by min(0.5 × fee, 70 €). For small fees the 50 % rule bites; for fees above 140 € the −70 € cap bites instead. The discount applies on top of every computed Sadzobník row.

Statutory exemptions (§ 4)

Employee in labour disputes (employer is not exempt), minors / adoption / capacity, social insurance / social services, and defined consumer cases return no_fee = 0 € with the § 4 citation. The Ústavný súd is separate — constitutional_court is out_of_scope (governed by zák. č. 314/2018 Z. z., no 71/1992 fee at all).

State fees: 0 % DPH. Lawyer fees: optional 23 % toggle.

State court fees in Slovakia are not subject to DPH. The calculator displays them at face value with no DPH line and never applies the 23 % toggle from the lawyer-fee side. Lawyer fees are DPH-applicable when the lawyer is DPH-registered; the result panel exposes that as a toggle on the lawyer-fee number only. Flipping it has no effect on the state-fee output.

A 5 000-€ civil monetary claim, first instance.

Take a standard civil monetary claim with claim_value = 5 000 € (civil_claim_value, first instance):

The same case at claim_value = 200 € returns the 25 € floor (0.06 × 200 = 12 → clamped up to 25). At claim_value = 1 000 000 € the 25 000 € cap binds (0.06 × 1 000 000 = 60 000 → clamped down to 25 000). These three figures match fixtures 1, 4 and 7 in the engine’s unit tests.

Where the two engines disagree on purpose.

Slovakia has four intentional divergences between the state-fee engine and a naive carry-over from the lawyer-fee side:

A second class of divergence is purely categorical: § 4 exemptions (employee in labour disputes — employer is not exempt — minors / adoption / capacity, social insurance / social services, defined consumer cases) return no_fee regardless of value. Several research-fixture rows are not yet a case type in our catalogue (e.g. dedicated enforcement and marital-property entries) and are documented in the spec but not modelled in v1.