Poland spends little on public administration compared to the EU
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Public expenditure of the Polish budget is the equivalent of approx. 45 percent of our GDP. How much of this do we spend on public administration and is it enough?
"For many years, the tax administration has been assigned new tasks without human resources and additional money. We will, so to speak, barely drown. This is what the public administration in this country looks like, unfortunately. Only 4.2 percent of GDP is spent on public administration in Poland. In other European countries it is much more," Agata Jagodzińska, a union leader in the National Revenue Administration, said in an interview for the portal 300gospodarka.
In 2019, EU countries spent an average of 5.8 percent of GDP on public administration. The record holder in this respect was Hungary, which spent on this purpose funds worth 8.2 percent of GDP. Hungary was followed by Greece and Finland, which spent 7.9 percent each. Poland is in 20th place in the Community when it comes to the percent value of GDP spent on public administration.
How does Poland fare when it comes to the level of spending per citizen? In such a ranking, we would be 3rd from the end in the European Union. Only Romania and Bulgaria spent less on public administration in 2019.
