Sławomir Mentzen in the Sejm on behalf of the Confederate Club on the government draft law amending the individual Income taxation Act and any another laws.
Sir! advanced House!
As we all should know, taxes should be low and simple. Unfortunately, they are getting taller and more complicated. Each year, with each consecutive government, they are increasingly complicated.
It would seem that there is yet a chance to halt this terrible trend, due to the fact that the prime minister of the Polish government is the celebrated economical liberal Donald Tusk. This man already in 2005, erstwhile taxes were much simpler than today, said that taxes should be simplified in Poland. He said that low and simple taxes were an chance to make the economy and fall unemployment. I quote: “People in Europe know that. erstwhile Chirac and Schröder heard that we wanted to introduce a linear tax, they started threatening us with a finger so that we wouldn't do it due to the fact that they know that then Poland will defeat Germany and France economically.”
When Tusk came to power, unfortunately, he did not introduce a linear tax, but we cannot claim it, due to the fact that since the German Chancellor himself threatened him with a finger, there was no way out and it could not be introduced. Donald Tusk, however, showed remarkable determination and consistency. In 2013, he again said that taxes should be simplified in Poland and that by 2015 we would have the simplest taxes across Europe. Again, it didn't work, but again without his fault. He did not want, he did not go, he did not plan, but he had to abandon the Prime Minister's position, go to Brussels, and his successor showed no akin determination.
Fortunately, Donald Tusk is in charge again and this time he will simplify our taxes, especially as his coalitions share his position on this matter. Simon Holovnia said in the campaign: we will fix and simplify taxes. I quote: “Taxes will be clear, predictable, and will be paid with 1 transfer. Key taxes will not be increased until 2026," Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish said, "We warrant voluntary Social Security, return to the erstwhile collection
health contributions’. He besides spoke of a linear tax: 10% to 5 million turnover and 15% above this threshold. Unfortunately, he did not know that Germany did not let the introduction of a linear taxation in Poland.
What's left of all these promises? What has this smiling coalition presented to us on 13 December last year, for a year since the election? Actually, nothing, but there's nothing to complain about.
Finally, we have the first task to simplify taxes. Yeah, what did we get? In 100 particulars, there is circumstantial mention to No. 5: ‘Enterprises will pay income taxation only after receiving the funds from the invoice paid’. The same evidence was included in the coalition agreement. The same evidence was repeated by Donald Tusk in his exposé.
What is it? Entrepreneurs in Poland must pay income taxation and VAT on the invoice issued, even if they do not receive payment for it. Comparing, it's like an worker on a occupation contract didn't get paid, and he inactive had to pay his contributions and taxes. This is absurd, but this absurdity is the everyday life of entrepreneurs in Poland. Now it was expected to end, but it won't end, due to the fact that what we got isn't a cash PIT.
The task contains quite a few pointless restrictions. First of all, the PIT cannot decide on the spot, as it was said, tiny and average entrepreneurs. Neither medium-sized entrepreneurs nor tiny entrepreneurs, nor even micro-entrepreneurs, can choose to do so only the smallest entrepreneurs with up to 250 1000 euros of income. The limit is, of course, in euro, not in gold, so that the entrepreneur one more time has an chance to make a mistake, due to the fact that all year this limit will be different.
Another bullshit restriction: only one-man business, no civil, public companies. Why? The justification states that moving a civilian partnership requires much more professionalism than moving a single-person business. This conviction proves that the author of the message of reasons is an authoritative who has no thought what is different from moving a civilian partnership from one-man business.
Some forms of accounting have besides been excluded, but the worst is different. Even if individual has a sufficiently low income, an appropriate form of business, an appropriate form of accounting, he will pay taxation on the issued to him, not on paid, invoices, but after 2 years. All that cash PIT is just a continuance
paying taxation by 2 years, nothing more. Moreover, if for these 2 years the entrepreneur is forced to close his business, for example, due to the fact that individual did not pay him the invoices, then the IRS will contact him and make him pay a taxation on the money he never got.
Of all your talk about taxation simplification, there's only a PIT for the smallest entrepreneurs, only for 1 form of accounting and that's only for 2 years. This is simply a mockery, not a cash PIT for entrepreneurs.
You failed to deliver this promise, just as you failed to deliver the promise to increase the tax-free amount, the amount of tax-free Belka, the voluntary Social safety Office, or the return of the wellness contribution to the condition before the fresh Deal. You besides failed to deliver your own promise, which you wrote in the coalition agreement, about a six-month vacatio legis for taxation changes.
We're already on 9/11, and we inactive don't know the content of the bill you want to destruct household foundations. We don't know the bill you want to increase taxation for programmers. Your taxation increase bill has not passed the Sejm.
I am certain that taxes in Poland will be inactive low and simple and we will have the simplest taxation strategy in Europe, but only erstwhile we remove you from power, due to the fact that this task proved that you do not care about simplifying the taxation strategy in Poland.
