Ministry of Finance to pay zl. 300 million in compensation for tax errors

For just nine months of 2002 the budget has to pay taxpayers zl. 300 million in compensation for wrongly imposed taxes. Such a considerable amount worrie s the Finance Ministry, which is considering changing the rules of granting bonuses to tax officials. Currently, tax officials may count on higher bonus es determined by the amount they are able to collect from a given individual . At the same time, tax specialists claim that the main reason for issuing i ncorrect decisions are the unclear and continuously amended tax regulations coupled with their changeable interpretations by the Finance Ministry. (Rzec zpospolita, p. A1) A.Z.