Banks paid PLN 1.4 bln in asset tax March-June

Polish financial institutions paid PLN 1.4 billion in the new asset tax in March-June period, the Finance Ministry said in a report on end-June budget realization. Poland initially budgeted PLN 5.5 billion in bank tax receipts for the full year but the tax came into force as of March 1. The Finance Ministry now expects PLN 4 billion, deputy Finance Minister Wieslaw Janczyk said on June 16.