New division of tax offices to deal with regular and corporate entities

Starting from 2003, the Finance Ministry plans to create 16 special tax offi ces (one in each voivodship) to service large corporate taxpayers. This is m eant to improve the servicing of those taxpayers, as well as tax collection. Corporate taxpayers will encompass those companies who had net revenues equi valent to at least euro 5 million in the previous financial year. The specia lized tax offices will also take over dealing with companies which participa te in management of companies located abroad or which are managed or owned b y a non-resident entity. "In the past there have been instances of moving th e headquarters of a company to Warsaw, due to - reportedly - higher qualific ations of tax officials," said Jeremi Mordasewicz, an analyst for the Polish Confederation of Private Employers (PKPP). "I think that if this process is well organized, employers will not complain about this change," he concluded . (Rzeczpospolita, p. B2) T.J.