He admitted that it is not yet decided whether rates will be progressive, and will be one linear rate. It is known, however, that there will be a separate rate on weekends.
PAP: During Wednesday’s meeting of the parliamentary group presented guidelines for the new project with three rates: 0.4 percent. with monthly income of 1.5 million zł to 17 million zł, 0.8 percent. with monthly income between 17 and 170 million zł and 1.4 percent. with revenue exceeding 170 million zł, as well as the amount of free circulation of 1.5 million zł per month. However, at the end of the meeting Minister Henryk Kowalczyk said that more inclined to linear rate of 0.9 percent. and the amount of free monthly 17 million zł. What is the position of the Ministry of Finance on the tax on retail sales?
Wieslaw Janczyk : On Wednesday, during a meeting of the team presented the assumptions for the draft law on tax on retail trade, they are they are very targeted. Excluded from the discussions some areas where it was difficult to gain public acceptance of the project.
PAP: eg. A different rate at the weekend …
WJ Yes, trading on Saturday and Sunday, but also the entire sphere of Internet trading, which ultimately will not be taxed. It was introduced as a very simple definition of the person liable – that it will be determined on the basis of a tax identification number. We gave also define the franchise. We went to meet demands of traders and we turned off all the boxes that aroused controversy during the consultation process and which could be a long time to discuss. The rest of the assumptions brought to the progression and three rates. According to what we proposed, traders will pay much less tax than they expected, because at the beginning of the estimates of income from the planned tax was much higher. And, above all, satisfied will be the most important purpose of the tax: empowerment of small and medium-sized enterprises.
PAP: We understand, therefore, that the status of the document of the Ministry only has this proposition with three rates, and no longer one rate, you mentioned the Minister Kowalczyk?
WJ: the final project will present within two to three weeks; there everything will be saved. Some kind of a surprise for us was that during the meeting of team appeared so strong acceptance against two tax rates, with the exception of the first, at the level of 0.4 percent. Then the tax-free amount to 17 mln zł per month and remain rate of 0.8 percent. for monthly income to 170 million zł, and the rate of 1.4 percent. more than 170 million zł. This proposal submitted parliamentarians, were applause and we gave a lot to think about.
PAP: Is it the case that the Ministry of Finance more supports any of these three options more than the other three rates, the two rates , one rate of 0.9? Are these three options are now equally possible?
W.J .: It is clear that consensus occurs when the tax rate is proposed, along with a large amount of free. There is also no such need, as we had expected, progression, because almost as excluded this first rate.
PAP: You could say that the most likely options are the two stakes and one rate?
WJ: the final information about what the rates will be applied, will appear in the bill, which we will present. Importantly, the moment of giving the project to the public will be the moment of completion of the consultation, but actually launch new channels of dialogue, such as the Inter-ministerial agreements or the Council for Social Dialogue.
PAP: You’re talking about exclusion from the project records about franchising and commerce on the Internet. This means that the franchise network will not be as a whole covered by the tax and trade on the internet or not?
W.J .: Tax will be calculated on the basis of the VAT number, so be it covered entities having their NIP. We want to create conditions to compensate the competitiveness of small and medium-sized businesses, we hope also that the EU favorably refer to the fact that this is the aim of this law.
PAP: EU dim unless progression rates?
WJ: we will rationally defend this project, because it gives the opportunity to equalize competition. We believe that the EU also depends on the fact that corporations do not have such an advantage over small and medium-sized businesses.
PAP And that alternative is you personally closest to?
WJ: My goal is to obtain the maximum consensus and acceptance for this project without losing the boundary conditions that we set up for the public levy in the draft budget.
PAP: So two billion zlotys influence from this tax are still valid?
WJ: You have to look at the budget bill on an annual basis. We did not launch this tax as soon as planned due to the need to take into account a number of expectations and demands, which were addressed to the government and the Ministry of Finance. I think that the passage of time makes the entrepreneurs of this tax in this year’s pay, but less.
PAP: Did estimates?
WJ: We have such estimates, they will be given in the explanatory memorandum to the draft.
PAP Minister Kowalczyk spoke about a billion zloty, if the Act will be introduced from July 1 this year. Is it possible that the Act will come from July 1?
W.J .: Work on the project will be completed in about two or three weeks. I believe that it manages to make the adjustment from 1 July. Let me remind you that the bank tax introduced very smoothly and it is already running.
PAP: A government spokesman said that no ideas increase in VAT rates. Can you confirm this?
W.J .: attempts were being caught us in the discussion on raising the VAT rate. We strongly dissociate ourselves from such ideas. We want to pursue our statements, declarations of Prime Minister Beata Szydło expressed in the expose, and previously also postulates program PiS. We not announced in their growth rates of VAT and stick to it. We want mainly to seal the tax law, which has significantly eroded by the actions of the previous government.
PAP: Will he return next year 22 per cent. VAT rate?
W.J .: I think that we should first wait for the first results of its actions minister of finance in the area of taxation. If they are satisfactory, will increase revenues to the state budget, then in a more courageous and daring we will take the next steps.
PAP: You are responsible in the Ministry of Finance, among others, Taxes for the sector. It is expected you change the tax on minerals?
W.J .: They are planned but have your calendar. I do not want to talk about it today. We remember the declaration in this regard. We analyze the situation in the industry and the company (KGHM – PAP). If the conditions will justify this change, we will issue a Communication on this issue. In contrast, today we focus on the tax on retail sales. It is for us a crucial issue.
PAP: You work on other changes in the tax sector?
WJ: I think that any changes concerning taxation should inform the first head of government, or Mrs. Beata Szydlo, head of the standing committee of the Council of Ministers, the Minister of finance. If they are developed and agreed documents, I think that these people first present the new regulations. The point is that the message was uniform, to those who will be the beneficiaries of these regulations, or they will bear the consequences thereof, they were confident that such decisions are uniquely developed and required that changes be carried out in a predictable and determined. And it can begin only from a political decision at the governmental level. We are in the realm of taxation and there is no reason to talk about everything, that we will introduce these or other solution, if there is no form of the bill. Language dialogue with the public ministry should be the language of dialogue based on the bills.
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