A fewer days ago, during the morning radio broadcast in Radio Three, in which representatives of all groups sitting in the Sejm took part, Prof. Zybertowicz, as a typical of the President's Chancellery, formulated the thesis on the political consent of the Tusk Government to taxation evasion. After this statement, there was a crucial silence in the studio, not a writer conducting a broadcast on a pro-government station in liquidation, nor Members representing coalition parties denied, nor did they want to proceed the debate on this subject. After all, prof. Zybertowicz has cited the authoritative paper issued by the National taxation Administration, namely the guidelines for its officers and employees, which find proceedings against taxpayers, in peculiar those who are suspected of taxation evasion.
These guidelines resulted in the reaction of the president of the KAS “Alternativa” of Agata Jagodzińska in the form of a letter to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, in which she made allegations about the fresh management of the Ministry of Finance. In her opinion, these guidelines led to a breakdown of taxation revenues in 2024 and consequently the request to importantly rise the budget deficit (in the erstwhile year to the level of PLN 240 billion). A letter from the head of the ZZ KAS to Prime Minister Tusk included 10 dense charges which, according to trade unionists, leak the taxation strategy and make an chance for fraud or non-payment of taxes. Of course, there were no answers to these allegations, and the president of the trade union met harassment and even an effort at disciplinary dismissal, which, after the case was made public, the management of the KAS withdrew.
The letter includes, among another things, information on the dissolution of taxation crime control cells and the appointment of analytical cells in their place, the absence of any settlement of customs and taxation offices for the results of the fight against taxation crime, the "staff carousels" in management positions in these offices, or the prohibition of checks without prior notification to taxable persons suspected of taxation offences. In the second case, the situation is that the taxation services, on the basis of information from e.g. the Single Control File, conclude that the taxable individual can extort VAT and by the end of 2023 it was that the control was immediately directed there, with almost 100 percent of the effectiveness, now specified a payer is notified in advance, unless only in order to "swind up the business" and the control went blank. Thus they returned to the KAS "old methods" from the erstwhile period of the Platform's pre-2015 rule, including directing a stream of checks on the alleged poles, which, in effect, give a credit for unpaid taxes, but only on paper, due to the fact that this money will never be recovered for the budget. It was precisely the return of these old methods of combating dishonest taxpayers, ineffective in terms of budgetary revenues, but at the same time occupying the time of the officials of the taxation administration, that Prof. Zybertovich, who decided to silence this problem in Radio Trójka.
Unfortunately, this diagnosis of both trade unionists from KAS and Prof. Zybertowicz confirms the hard data on gross from the main origin of budgetary revenue, i.e. VAT. Although there are no final data for the year 2024, estimates show that VAT revenues will be higher than those from 2023, only by about 9 billion PLN, which is little than 3%. Of course, it is essential to make "apple and apples" comparable, i.e. to make VAT data comparable between 2023 and 2024, so to make VAT revenues in 2023 add PLN 16 billion for the food and energy shields in force at the time, as well as add PLN 12 billion, transferred from December 2023 to January 2024 with the mechanics of early VAT returns, while deduct from the proceeds from 2024 the mentioned PLN 12 billion transferred from 2023. Then the increase in VAT revenues in 2024 will be only about 3%, while the alleged taxation base, i.e. nominal GDP growth in 2024, increased by about 7% (3% GDP growth and close to 4% inflation), which is rather clear evidence of the intensive VAT fraud process.
