This is simply a large excuse to go back to discussing whether a bottle of vodka should cost at least PLN 100 in Poland. Alcohol prices set us on fire for discussion, and now there will be a real storm about it. All due to the decision that president Karol Nawrocki had already made.
Increase in excise work on alcohol and sugar levies
– There will be no agreement by president Karol Nawrocki to propose raising the excise work on alcohol – the chief of his law firm Zbigniew Bogucki confirmed on ZET Radio. This argues that in this way the head of state makes his electoral promises.
– If the president says he won't sign the taxation increase bill, he won't sign the bill. That's it. We don't know the details of this project, due to the fact that possibly there's an increase somewhere, and there's a decrease somewhere. present we are talking about this – emphasised Bogacki.
Let's get this straight. The Ministry of Finance wants to rise the excise work on alcohol in order to reduce its consumption in Poland. The reason is simple – it is the wellness of Poles. Let's not kid ourselves, our alcohol is easy available and comparatively cheap. The increase in excise work would be an effective way to tighten the screw on the market.
The 15 percent increase in excise work on alcoholic beverages would come into force from 1 January 2026. A year later, these rates would increase by another 10%. The same is to be done in the event of an increase in the alleged sugar levy. This is besides a immense problem in our society. The Ministry of wellness warned that the average Pole eats by almost 12 kg more sugar processed annually than 10 years ago. Speaking of data... from 2019. This all leads to obesity and associated diseases.
But let's get back to talking about alcohol. In fact, we have been fighting this subject for years – opponents of the increase in excise work inform that it is an attack on Polish entrepreneurs. On the another hand, consider what inflation has done to even butter prices. In fact, with the prices of all food-based essentials that soar rapidly. At the same time, the alcohol was simply cheap. And you get it almost everywhere.
We hear that vodka and mostly alcohol in Poland are more costly (and that is true). But erstwhile we stand at the shelf and compare prices, there is no shock therapy. Sure, more noble drinks are more expensive, but in real terms, 25-30 PLN we will leave with a bottle of "clean". present for this amount it is even hard to do tiny buying for 1 day or have a average dinner in the city (unless in a milk bar).
The increase in excise work on alcohol is not a fanaberia
If Nawrocks truly block the excise work on alcohol, it won't just play on the nose of Donald Tusk's government. This could be explained by his veto on the alleged Windmill Act, which besides divided Poles. It was Nawrocki's first presidential veto, but it was about politics. And in the case of alcohol or sugar, we are talking about wellness and social problems that are swept under the carpet.
I don't believe it, or I don't want to believe that Nawrocki makes decisions without any reflection. And that in this case, he will go out to announce a veto and tell everyone that he promised in the run no taxation increases. Since he wanted to be the president of all Poles so badly, he cannot hide behind the free marketplace and "consumer protection". Let him perceive to doctors who will tell him what diseases abusers are suffering from.
This is not the Tusk government's fanbabie to make alcohol a small more expensive. Besides, we are moving from zero due to the fact that in Poland it is 1 of the cheapest in the full EU. It can only be bought cheaper in Bulgaria, Romania or Hungary. There's no reason to be arrogant here, due to the fact that given the prices, we've become a small bit of an eldorado.
And there is no point in being outraged that the government, in inducing prices, limits our freedom, due to the fact that it hinders access to jump drinks. Seriously, that voice prevailed in our online probe erstwhile the thought of banning alcohol from gas stations was made public. He erstwhile described nicely in Temat Piotr Brzózka that it was an assassination "for freedom, for the soul of Sarmatian, the sacred right of ownership of itself". Easy access to alcohol is like independence.
Let us besides not forget that the prices of alcohol in the fresh year will increase, even without the increase that is now under way. Even in the days of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law on the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law on the Law of the Law of the Law on the Law of the Law of the Law on the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law on the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law on the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law on the Law of the Law of the Law on the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law on the Law of the Law of the Law on the Law of the Law of the Law, the Law of the Law of the Law on the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law, the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law of the Law If nothing changes along the way, it will increase by 5 percent in 2026. We will not become Finland at once, where "percentage" is record-high, but these increases cannot be de facto inhibited.
Finally, we should remind you: in 2023, 11.6% of our countrymen were alerted to alcohol abuse. respective 100 1000 Poles fight addiction. As stated last year by "Rzeczpospolita", in the morning about 410 1000 pieces of popular "monkey" are purchased in Poland. It's just 31 percent of the regular sales anyway.
Mr President, you have a chance to do something about this.
