Switzerland has announced its decision to ratify the pending protocol to the 1996 income and capital tax treaty with Slovenia, published in the Official Gazette on 25 June, 2024.

Signed on 30 May 2023, this protocol marks the second amendment to the treaty.

The treaty will become effective once the ratification instruments are exchanged and will be applicable from 1 January of the year following its enactment.

Earlier, the Swiss Council of States, the upper house of parliament, approved the ratification of the 1996 income and capital tax treaty with Slovenia on 30 May, 2024.