The President and the Constitutional dilemma over the 50% tax bracket bill

"The President now has until December 9 to make his final decision," said Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz from the President's Chancellery. If he signs the bill on or by that date, then the new fiscal regulation would still come into power as of January 1, 2005, but it will violate the Constitution as it has to be published in the Journal of Laws a month before it takes effect and that deadline now cannot be met. According to lawyers, the best move the President can make would be to ask the Constitutional Tribunal to prepare a so-called preventive consultation, or simply to submit a complaint to the Tribunal, which could prevent the Constitution being violated if the new law is to become legally binding as of the beginning of 2005. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 4) M.M.