New ZUS rate may eat up 25% of small businesses income

The draft still envisages maintaining nine contribution brackets. It will be most beneficial for companies recording the highest revenues, as it will be similar to the premium paid by an entrepreneur with the lowest revenues. Entrepreneurs do not like the projected changes at all. On Friday, during the meeting with the Economy Minister Jerzy Hausner, employers associations will demand that the proposals be withdrawn from Parliament. "I am optimistic," said Henryka Bochniarz, president of Polish Confederation of Private Employers (PKPP). A source from the economy ministry believes that the issue of ZUS premium has still not been finally decided upon yet. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, B1) M.M.