Sławomir Mentzen criticised Donald Tusk's government taxation package on 19 August: the PIT threshold is to emergence to PLN 130 thousand, but the lump sum limit is to fall from 2 million to EUR 250 thousand. For many companies this means little freedom and greater uncertainty since 2027.
Little relief, large bill
Sławomir Mentzen assessed the taxation announcements of Donald Tusk's government as a hit on Polish tiny companies. It is simply a package presented on 19 August by Prime Minister and Finance Minister Andrzej Domański. The government sells it as a relief for the mediate class, due to the fact that the PIT scale threshold is to emergence from 120 1000 to 130 1000 PLN. The problem is, next to this relief comes a fresh account for entrepreneurs.
According to the Mentzen account, he wrote that the symbolic raising of the taxation threshold is to be occupied by "a powerful hit on Polish tiny companies". He most powerfully pointed to the lump sum. Currently, the gross limit to benefit from this form of taxation is EUR 2 million, and the government wants to return to the limit of EUR 250,000. It's not cosmetic. It's a change that many companies take distant from a simpler way of accounting.
A flat is not a privilege for a surviving room
A flat rate makes sense just due to the fact that it simplifies the life of entrepreneurs. The State collects income taxation at a certain rate, and the company does not gotta drown in billing costs, invoices and interpretations. For any industries, the difference is between the average moving of the business and the next occupation in your own company, only without the protection of an employee.
Therefore, it is worth reading the taxation plan together with earlier dispute over PIT 24 percent and higher CIT. The government talks about relief, but at the same time it seeks sources of funding. In a political project, individual always pays. The question is: why should the individual who takes work for his own work, clients and employees pay again?
Mentzen besides recalled that the erstwhile government was pushing any entrepreneurs out of a linear taxation into a lump sum. Now another cabinet changes the rules of the game. This is 1 of the biggest diseases of the Polish state: the entrepreneur does not plan to develop, he only guesses what the legislator will come up with after the next press conference.
Numbers show political trade
The government package is intended to cover 3.5 million taxpayers. The PIT scale after changes would be as follows: 12% to 130 1000 PLN of income, 24 percent on income between PLN 130 and 150 1000 and 32 percent above PLN 150 thousand. Analysts Erste Bank Polska, quoted by Business Insider, estimated the cost of changes in PIT to around PLN 10 billionand the maximum benefit to the payer at PLN 3.6 1000 per year.
On the financing side, the government indicates a higher CIT. The rate for entities with yearly revenues above EUR 50 million and for taxation capital groups is expected to emergence from 19 to 22 percent. The solidarity tribute for people with income of over PLN 1 million is expected to emergence from 4 to 5 percent. Plus there's a cut in the lump sum. Each component can be described separately as a method correction. Together they form the direction: more countries in the wallet of the citizen and the company.
Economic sovereignty begins in the company
The national economy does not grow from slides in KPRM. It grows from thousands of decisions made regular in tiny companies, workshops, law firms, online shops and services. If you change the rules all fewer years, it destroys trust. And without trust there is no investment, employment and Polish capital.
That is why the subject of taxation is simply a national issue in a applicable sense. This isn't about an accounting expert dispute. The question is whether the Pole is to build property and independence, whether he is to be an eternal champion of the state, who first promises relief and then takes it by another channel.
It is worth comparing the current package with the erstwhile image Polish taxes ranking taxation Foundation. Poland does not request another “revolution” announced under the slogan of mediate class relief. It needs unchangeable rules, low burdens and respect for people who make jobs themselves.
The bill will be paid by circumstantial people
Politicians like to talk about taxes like money's on the ministerial table. They're not. all buck comes from individual else's job, hazard and time. If the government wants to rise the PIT threshold, tell them to be honest, who will pay for it and why.
Mentzen hit the point due to the fact that he exposed the mechanics well known to Polish entrepreneurs. There's a promise first. Then a correction. At the end of the invoice. For Poland, there is something bigger than 1 lump sum limit: the nation's ability to build its own capital without constant fear of the next taxation surprise.
Source: To Things, Business Insider, Money.pl, PAP.
