Sejm facilitated tax procedures

With 286 votes in favor, 2 against, and 136 abstaining, Sejm, the lower house of the parliament amended the tax law on Thursday. The Ministry of Finance inclined towards facilitating the payment of taxes while ensuring further development of cashless flow and reducing administrative costs, hence an option to use payment cards will be implemented. In order to simplify and accelerate trials revolving around tax issues, each case involving multiple interrelated firms will be assigned to one main bureau. After the amendments will enter into force, each taxpayer will be allowed to indicate his proxy to represent him during all tax-related procedures. Predicaments concerning tax law interpretation are also addressed: instead of replicating individual interpretations the same case, one general will be issued. The mere processes of submitting interpretation requests and issuing interpretations will also be ameliorated. So as to conduct further digitalization of fiscal records, and analyze data more efficiently, the form of electronic reports from fiscal ledgers will be standardized. Moreover, any correction to one's tax declaration will no longer have to include justification. The majority of the changes voted through will be effective form January 1, 2016.