Fiscal offices bully and hinder IT companies

The Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications (PIIT) has turned to Finance Minister Andrzej Raczko with a complaint concerning the approach of tax offices towards the sector. IT companies criticize fiscal policies, the impunity and lack of competence among officials, an absence of standardized procedures and drawn out legal proceedings with the Supreme Administrative Court (NSA). According to industry analysts, if there is no immediate improvement then this sector, which has an annual turnover of zł. 22 billion and employs over 37,000, could face real problems. "The publicly known cases of Optimus, JTT and DTK are only the tip of the iceberg. Most IT companies are under very strict fiscal control," said Ireneusz Dąbrowski, the deputy head of PIIT, and the director of Tech Data Polska, one of the largest companies in the sector. According to representatives of other enterprises, fiscal officials unfarily look for fraud in company accounts as they are paid bonuses for reporting any alleged problems, even if they turn out to be untrue. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 4) A.K.