Mateusz Morawiecki on a mission to show the EU how to tackle tax evasion
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Poland’s Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, wrote an article about the VAT evaders for a German daily newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). In the article, Morawiecki shared his idea of dealing with the problem. He announced that Warsaw is going to propose to the European Union a declaration in order to jointly combat VAT fraud.
The declaration will involve the exchange of information using advanced IT tools for combating tax fraud, as well as databanks containing a list of all commercial companies and VAT taxpayers in different countries.
VAT receipts are one of the main sources of budget revenues of the EU member states – in 2017 they made up 21 percent of all tax revenues (€1.085 billion) and 12 percent of EU budget (€17 billion).
