Belka's economic program promises stability and cuts in ZUS payments

"Marek Belka talked about maintaining the CIT rate at 19% and the possibility to choose a 19% PIT rate for people running small businesses," Małgorzata Ostrowska of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) commented. Belka also talked of looking for ways to enable the lowering of ZUS contributions as part of a general plan to lower labor cost for enterprises and thus induce companies to increase employment. Belka's program assumes that economic growth will continue at its present high levels, but a long-term plan has also been devised to attract further foreign direct investment. Further plans also envisage the introduction of infrastructure bonds to provide pension funds with a new financial instrument and thus help raise cash for the sector. (Puls Biznesu, p. 7) A.K.