Senators support Sejm tax hike

Gronicki told senators that imposing the higher tax rate might reduce budget revenue rather than increase it because the country's biggest earners would find loopholes to avoid paying the new level. Senator Jerzy Markowicz (SLD) declared: "It is better to have 400,000 than 40 million potentially dissatisfied [citizens]." Now that the Senate has passed the bill it will return to the Sejm for approval, effectively ending any chances of withdrawing the proposed rate. "The road is closed," stated the Deputy Finance Minister Jarosław Neneman. "The president cannot 'cut out' the 50 percent tax rate clause in the bill and it is difficult to imagine that he will not sign the whole bill just because of this one reason." (Poland A.M.)