Government plans to reduce ZUS premiums

Pension premium would drop from 13% to 9%. The changes should enter in force from the beginning of next year. The trouble is that ZUS is not prepared technically to do this and no one from the government consulted the move before announcing the plans. ZUS would have not update its existing IT system. The costs of the update are yet unknown. Moreover, it would have to undergo a testing period for at least 6 months. The change was aimed at lowering labor costs for employers with no harm to the state budget. The trouble is that according to the president of the supervisory board of ZUS, Robert Gwiazdowski, in some cases these costs may even grow for business, due to the different bases for calculating premiums. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 32) J.L.