E-commerce to be excluded from retail tax

Deputy Finance Minister Wieslaw Janczyk told the Polish Press Agency (PAP) that Poland has decided not to tax e-commerce and dropped the idea of imposing a joint tax on whole franchise networks "... the whole sphere of e-commerce will, in the end, be excluded from the tax," Janczyk said. "We have also introduced a very simple definition of the obliged tax payer - it will be defined based on the tax identification number," he said. "We also gave up on defining franchise." The ministry plans to end works on a draft bill within 2-3 weeks and hopes to implement the tax on July 1. "I believe we will manage to introduce this legislation as of July 1," the official noted.