Poland collects taxes inefficiently - IMF

International Monetary Fund said in a report for the Ministry of Finance that Poland is performing poorly in collecting taxes, especially VAT and CIT. The report suggests that the tax collection (PIT, CIT and VAT) was more efficient before the crisis and stood at 16 percent of GDP in 2008 and the figure fell to 14 percent in 2009 and to 13.1 percent in 2013. The predicted value for 2014 stands at 13.5 percent. The report also points that the structure of Poland's tax administration is ineffective and blurs responsibility. The IMF suggests that Poland needs to modernize its tax administration and create a special tax authority for large corporate taxpayers in order to increase its tax collection effectiveness.