Please see the most important changes on the grounds of CIT: New reliefs, to include: increase from 150% to 200% of the amount eligible for deduction of qualified costs in R&D Centre (CBR), including those related to obtaining and maintaining a patent, right of protection for a utility model, right from registration of an industrial […]
Tax strategy – is your business ready for this change?
According to the Ministry of Finance announcements the obligation to prepare a tax strategy, initially planned already for 2020 CIT settlements, will be postponed and apply to CIT reconciliations for 2021 onwards. The strategy is a collection of information about the taxpayer’s tax management, cooperation with the tax authorities, specific transactions and business reorganizations as […]
A new innovation package for entrepreneurs
A draft of the tax act has been published to introduce a tax relief system for companies in CIT and PIT. The system of reliefs is intended to encourage entrepreneurs to innovations and will include the following elements: research and development relief supporting works on a new product, service, or process; relief for employing innovative […]
Repatriation Program
The Ministry of Finance presented details of the so-called Repatriation Program, which aims at (i) encouraging Polish citizens to return to Poland and (ii) creating favorable conditions for investments and family business in Poland. Below we present the main assumptions of the Program. Relief for return Individuals living and working abroad for at least 3 […]
“Cashless Taxpayer” program
The Ministry of Finance presented the “Cashless Taxpayer” program. These solutions shall enable the taxpayer to take advantage of the tax relief for the purchase and use of the cashless terminal plus will be entitled to a VAT refund within 15 days. There are two packages in the program – Silver and Gold. Silver package […]
WHT regime postponement in Poland
On 11 June 2021 draft regulations introducing the postponement (for the sixth time!) of the mandatory WHT pay-and-refund regime until 31 December 2021 were published on the RCL website. As the Ministry of Finance clarifies, the postponement results from the exceptional conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, which makes it unreasonable to burden payers and taxpayers […]
“Polish Deal” – the announcement of major changes in taxes
The Polish government presented a draft package of tax and social changes, the so-called Polish Deal. General concepts of planned changes have been presented, however, we will wait for draft legal acts until the third quarter of 2021. The planned changes to the tax law presented so far relate primarily to the issue of taxation […]
Refinancing of employees’ remuneration should be taxed?
Entrepreneurs who received support under Article 15g/15gg of the Anti-crisis Shield may be obliged to pay tax on the additional taxable benefit in the amount of the received funds. According to the authorities refinancing of employees’ remuneration received from the Guaranteed Employee Benefits Fund (FGŚP) should be subject to CIT. According to the approach initially […]
New statistics on Advance Pricing Agreements (APA) applications
At the end of January, the Ministry of Finance (MF) published the most up-to-date statistics related to the Advance Pricing Agreements (APA) procedure. Updated as of 31 December 2020, the data summarises already 15 years of this legislation in Poland. For several years, the number of pricing agreements concluded by the MF with taxpayers has […]
New anti-abusive regulations – tax losses
Most important amendment in CIT and PIT for 2021 was a change of personal income tax liability of partnerships. So far they were tax transparent but suddenly they become – or will become shortly – tax opaque. However, this is not only a negative modification of the Polish tax law introduced this year. It is […]