Poland may scrap mining tax next year

Treasury Minister Dawid Jackiewicz told Wprost weekly in an interview that Poland may abolish the mineral tax on silver and copper in 2017. The levy was introduced in 2012 by the former coalition of PO-PSL to tax Poland's copper mining giant KGHM. Doing away with it was one of the promises made by PiS in the 2015 election campaign. "We do not pull back from that promise (for tax relief). It is only a matter of time when we will try to ease the dimension of the tax, and perhaps then eliminate it," Jackiewicz said. "Definitely by the end of the government's term, and perhaps even in 2017 there will be a serious relief," he said.