Growing tax arrears

The total outstanding arrears in taxes (PIT, VAT and CIT) stood at PLN 29 billion in 2013 and in the last year it grew by an additional PLN 9 billion reaching PLN 38 billion, which is more than the budget deficit, according to Polish daily Puls Biznesu. Experts claim, that taxpayer outstanding debt is even higher and may account to PLN 45 billion.The Ministry of the Economy expects that arrears in taxes will grow to PLN 50 billion at the end of this year. One of the solutions aimed at improving the effectiveness of tax collection is the creation of a debtor blacklist, however, the idea of the Finance Minister was rejected twice by the government.