Finance Ministry tax reforms raise doubts about how they will be financed

"Following weeks of 'hard work' the Ministry presented a rather accidental combination of different - more or less rational, deeper or more shallow - corrections of the present system," said Janusz Fiszer, a partner in the law firm White&Case. Apart from the fact that in general opinions are positive, some lawyers questioned, for example, the selective exemption of cosmetics from excise tax, while others questioned imposing taxes on the use of company cars for private purposes. Economists are worried about where the government will obtain the zł.11 billion necessary for financing the reforms. (Parkiet, p. 9) M.M.