E-trade to be excluded from retailer tax
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Poland to exclude e-commerce from retailer tax, drops idea of joint tax for franchise networks
Poland decided not to tax e-commerce and dropped the idea of imposing joint tax on whole franchise networks, as tax payers will be defined as firms holding tax identification number NIP, deputy Finance Minister Wieslaw Janczyk told PAP.
"... the whole sphere of e-commerce will at 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 was surprised with the support among retailers for two tax rate system proposal, with PLN 17 mln tax free monthly turnover, a 0.8% tax rate for turnover up to PLN 170 mln and 1.4% for turnover above that threshold, Janczyk noted.
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.
