Current Personal Income Tax brackets, may remain unchanged

On Monday, the PM announced that today the government would work on the Personal Income Tax Bill, and that the current tax brackets of 19%, 30% and 40% would most likely remain unchanged. "When it comes to 2005, we have left room for discussion in terms of introducing a flat rate tax," added Miller, who also suggested that the tax-free allowance, currently zł. 2,790, could be increased to zł. 3,170. The Economy and Labor Minister Jerzy Hausner, however, repeatedly claimed that this sum should be increased to zł. 4,000. According to media reports, however, the Finance Ministry has concluded that such a solution would not be compensated by scrapping all tax allowances. (www.onet.pl; Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, B1) M.M.