Thanks to this tax could bypass the small and medium-sized shops. At the same time they have to change the rules for the franchise. The original bill could lead to the demise of small businesses owned by franchise chains and release up to 23 thousand. people.
After consultations on the retail sales tax bill is to be supplemented with new findings and submitted by the end of the month. On the changes depended representatives of Polish trade, who argued that the bill could destroy the trade and cause the collapse of thousands of stores.
– Tax on retail chains will cause devastating negative impact on all Polish small and medium-sized shops, as it will be counted from the total turnover of all stores in the network, calculated according to the highest rate, as for hypermarkets. Summed will be thousands of shops in this way a few hypermarkets and from them will be discharged the highest tax. So will be taxed all the shops that are under the common name in the franchise networks – said the agency Newseria Wojciech Kruszewski, president of the Polish retail chain Leviathan.
Summing turnover of all franchise stores, and then calculate and collect the tax from the owners of the shops by the franchisors could cause the collapse of the network. Even a small shop at low speed, which is part of the group would pay the same taxes as a hypermarket. As indicated by the President of the Leviathan, the average turnover of the store forming part of the network are at the level of 220 thousand. zł per month. If the law came into force unchanged would mean that each of the stores would pay a tax of 1.3 per cent., Which is the highest rate, as well as great shopping with a turnover of billions of zlotys a month.
– Doing just oppose it because it would make the fall would have hundreds or even thousands of shops – emphasizes Kruszewski. – Small shops buy from small and medium-sized enterprises producing food or bakery, pastry, local dairies, cooperatives and farmers who provide us with products. After all, those smaller does not deliver to the big supermarkets, so this is a huge chain – he argues.
Demands traders
Traders postulate that the tax is levied individually, according to NIP company. In addition, income tax paid could be deducted from trade tax. The original design of the bill on the tax on retail sales assumed that the tax would apply beyond the company 1.5 million zł revenue per month. With revenues amounting to 300 million zł the base rate would reach 0.7 per cent. Above that ceiling already 1.3 percent. When trading on the weekends, the rate would be respectively 1.3 and 1.9 percent.
– The consequences of such a tax would be disastrous. Cofnęlibyśmy to the system 20 years ago, when every shop acted alone. After a hanged them signs, we carried out a joint promotional campaigns and helping the stores that that they were standardized and were able to defend themselves against large external networks. And now otworzylibyśmy gates for large networks, because these small disappear from the market – suggests the president of Leviathan.
Changing the rules on franchise
As announced by representatives of the government after consultations changed, however, have to be provisions concerning franchise. The definition would be a mark or in connection with the movement of goods or capital – the Ministry of Finance has to choose one of these options. Thus, small and medium-sized shops in franchise associations would not be subject to tax.
As the president of the network Lewiatan, if as originally planned force progressive tax, major changes would not experience customers. According to preliminary information may, however, apply one tax rate from the markets.
– If you would have been lower tax scale for small and medium-sized enterprises, higher for large and giant, the smallest ones should not make price increases, and thus the bigger the they would not have the courage to do it. They could not, because the competition would operate. However, if the tax franchise stores was so gigantic, as proposed, it is a franchise that fell and giants podwyższyliby money – warns Wojciech Kruszewski.
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