Morawiecki: A new tax on retail trade is being prepared
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The government is preparing a new solution for the retail sales tax. If this is rejected by the European Commission, like the previous version, it will implement the French or Spanish solution, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Mateusz Morawiecki informed.
“We plan to propose a new tax, in order to initiate a dialogue with the European Commission. Income from the tax is entered in the budget, and it is less than PLN 1 billion. If the Commission rejects this proposal, we will apply the French or Spanish solution, which have not been questioned by the Commission,” Morawiecki said.
In September, the European Commission opened an investigation into the Polish retail tax. It expressed concerns about the progressive rates based on revenues, which gave companies with lower revenues an advantage, which is in violation of EU state aid rules.
