New tax scheme proposition rejected by industry experts

"We first need a real tax strategy, and than a codification of the legal framework. Until now we have not been dealing with a strategy but rather with tactical operations," said Wojciech Błaszczyk, a lawyer and the spokesperson for the Polish Confederation of Private Employers (PKPP). According to Rafał Antczak, an expert from the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), the new tax scheme is merely propaganda trying to prove that it is impossible to introduce a flat rate tax. "The document is purely theoretical and cannot be realistically incorporated into the economy," he said. Experts also question the basic assumption of the strategy which calls for the complete separation of personal income and income obtained from running small businesses. (Puls Biznesu, p. 9) A.K.