Law In Brief: officials to declare assets; cash registers for small business

All local officials are supposed to declare their material assets, about businesses that are run by their family and relatives, as well as any post that their family members may hold in local authorities. This is part of the anti-corruption policy which became law on January 1, 2003. (Rzeczpospolita, p. C1) ... All VAT-payers whose revenues exceeded zl. 40,000 last year are obliged to use fiscal cash tills in order to register their sales. Those who will begin their businesses within this year, are also required to purchase fiscal cash registers as soon as their revenues exceed zl. 20,000. (Rzeczpospolita, p. C4) K.Z.