How to report tax reliefs to your employer?
The golden rule of every salary calculation in Croatia is the following: the employer pays the salary exclusively relying on your current data in the tax card! If a child, a person with zero income, or an established civil disability is not processed and entered by the worker into the centralized tax register, that attribute will not exist! You must provide them with a valid, updated new card!
Option 1: Digital path via e-Citizens (Fastest)
Absolute recommendation. Today, rarely anyone physically goes to knock on clerks' doors to record changes.
Steps from the comfort of your home
Log into the national portal e-Građani using the NIAS system.
Select the Tax Administration system.
Select the tab module "Moje porezne kartice / Zahtjev za promjenom".
Click the green option Add Dependent Member, enter ID number, and upload proof.
The clerk's office will process this. An Updated PDF card form arrives as a message in your e-Inbox.
Very Important: You must strictly and urgently forward that refreshed new PDF document via e-mail to HR.
Option 2: Physical submission
For foreigners without an issued bank certificate or those without digital access.
- 1.Prepare copies of birth certificates.
- 2.Physical visit to the Tax administration branch.
- 3.The clerk stamps the printout of the new extract.
- 4.Hurry with it directly to the company.
Retroactive period (Late filing)
Were you late registering your son? The state legally took increased net installments! The answer is fantastic - it's not lost! The procedure for correcting the injustice will occur towards the end of February of the following year via the "Annual Declaration". The Tax Administration manually corrects the calculations for the entire year and refunds your saved tax difference!