The European Commission has just published its country-specific recommendations indicating the macroeconomic areas on which the Member States need to focus on. The guidance is part of the European Semester economic policy coordination programme. The aim of country-specific recommendations (CSRs) is to highlight the areas that each country needs to improve in order to boost…
April is the last month for filing PIT tax returns. This means it is about time to do your taxes, at least if you are an employee. A vast number of Poles wait till the last moment to do that. For many years that meant spending considerable amount of time queuing in tax offices. A…
Supreme Audit Office (NIK) conducted a study of how Polish fiscal control authorities tackle tax fraud. The results? Ministry of Finance has a lot to work on. NIK took a look into the activities the Ministry of Finance and is subordinates took upon to counteract VAT fraud and tax avoidance and to retrieve the money…
A new child benefit programme will be launched later this week. Polish parents are more than happy, but can the budget handle it? The 500 PLN per child was a key promise in the general election race won by Prawo and Sprawiedliwość [Law and Justice]. Now the ruling party are to show the public that…
Paweł Szałamacha and Marek Gróbarczyk, Polish Minister of Finance and Minister of Maritime Economy and Inland Navigation, caught up everyone’s attention in a press conference that was held on Monday in Szczecin, in a shipyard cafeteria. The press event was called up in order to present a government remedy that is to bring back life…
Polish government is working on amendments to Corporate Income Tax Act, Personal Income Tax Act and Freedom of Business Activity Act that will bring the legal limit of cash transactions down. Presently, the threshold for transactions in cash between enterprises is 15,000 EUR, but this is soon to change. The new limit is planned to…
A big change is coming for taxpayers. The Polish Ministry of Finance has new plans to combat tax evasion and identify dishonest taxpayers. Polish edition of Forbes magazine called the upcoming solution revolutionary. Consolidated Control File – this is the name of the new tool that is to bring tax investigations to the next level….
2016 budget act was passed through the Sejm (lower chamber of Polish Parliament) on Saturday. The state’s presentation of the planned revenue and spending closes with a deficit in the amount of 54.7 billion PLN. Polish MPs worked on over three hundred proposed amendments and eventually approved of the financial plan for 2016. The proposed…
It has been known for some time that Polish government has plans to introduce a new levy on retail sales. The original idea was to tax large retail chains, like Tesco or Lidl. The number of small shops in Poland has been continuously going down for some time. Ministry of Finance finally revealed some information…
A big change is coming up in 2016 for the banks and some other financial institutions operating in Poland, as Polish Sejm (lower chamber of the Parliament) has just passed a bill introducing a new tax. February 2016 will be the first month of functioning of the new levy. It will affect home banks, foreign…
