Last year, we informed you about a dispute concerning the duty to revaluate advances for the acquisition of assets paid in foreign currencies. Now, the decision of the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) is already available, quoting, among other things, the Interpretation of the National Board of Accountants (NBA) I-43 approved in October 2020. The dispute […]
The Supreme Administrative Court makes life easier – allocating the cost of interest on a loan for the purchase of shares
Breaking the prevailing approach of administrative courts, the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) recently issued a judgment (ref. No II FSK 2627/20), in which it indicated that the costs of interest on a loan for the purchase of shares should be recognized as indirect costs (i.e. costs not directly related to any source of revenues) and […]
Poland – back to the past in terms of intra-Community acquisition of goods
On March 18, 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued a positive judgment in the Polish case C-895/19 held that the Polish provisions of the Polish VAT Act, which in a specific situation prohibits the recognition of output and input tax on intra-Community acquisition of goods (ICA) in the same settlement […]
Real estate rich companies are eligible for a lower real estate tax rate
The mere ownership of real estate by an entrepreneur does not determine the real estate tax rate. This is the outcome of important judgments issued in 2021 – first, by the Constitutional Tribunal (TK) in February (ref. no SK 39/19) and then by the Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) in March (ref. no III FSK 895/21 […]
Proposals of tightening fiscal penal responsibility in Poland – suspension of the limitation period and increase of ticket fine
Suspension of the limitation period Currently, the length of limitation periods are: for fiscal transgressions: 1 year (regarding diminishment of tax receivables up to PLN 14k); for fiscal offences: 5 years (regarding diminishment of tax receivables exceeding PLN 14k), punishable by a fine, a penalty of restriction of liberty or penalty of imprisonment up to 3 years; for fiscal offences: 10 […]
New positive opinion on the application of General Anti-Abusive Regulations (GAAR) to a set of restructuring activities
On December 10, 2020, the tax authorities issued an opinion (ref. DKP3.8011.15.2020) on the application of General Anti-Abusive Regulations (GAAR). The opinion was favourable for the applicants. What kind of activities was the subject of the opinion? Envisaged operations encompassed (i) share for share exchange, (ii) transformation of companies into limited liability partnerships and (iii) […]
New obligation for 2021 – TAX STRATEGY
As of 2021 (i) taxpayers with revenues exceeding EUR 50M annually as well as (ii) tax capital groups are obliged to prepare and publicise information about tax strategy realized in the tax year. This in fact means the obligation of preparation of a tax procedure describing the process of carrying out tax compliance. We believe […]
First opinions of the Anti-Tax Avoidance Council on the applicability of General Anti-Abusive Regulations (GAAR)
In order to mitigate the arbitrariness of the General Anti-Abusive Regulations (GAAR), the Polish legislator decided to establish the Anti-Tax Avoidance Council (hereinafter: the Council) issuing opinions on the applicability of the GAAR clause and measures limiting contractual benefits in individual cases. The Council issues opinions at the request of the Head of National Revenue […]
Refusals to issue security opinions on the application of General Anti-Abusive Regulations (GAAR)
The Head of National Revenue Administration (KAS) has completed more than 20 proceedings on the application of the General Anti-Abusive Regulations (GAAR). This resulted in the imposition of tax surcharges exceeding PLN 80M. We have written more on this subject here. What was challenged by the tax authorities? A spin-off of an organized part of […]
No CFC for Tax Transparent Entity
This is the end of the 5-year CFC dispute. The Supreme Administrative Court finally confirmed what we have argued for from the beginning: that income derived by a tax transparent partnership should be considered business activity income aid, in consequence, non-passive income on the grounds of the CFC regulations. What was the background of the dispute? Some time ago the tax authorities came to the conclusion that it would be good to cut all the discussions and […]