Tuesday, June 14, 2016

The government adopted guidelines for the budget for next year – Polish Radio

According to the assumptions, economic growth next year is expected to reach 3.9 per cent., And inflation – 1.3 percent .; at the end of 2017, registered unemployment is expected to reach 8.1 percent.

 

Minimum wage

 

– Based on the responsibility for the state budget, finances and for the fate of Polish citizens, thinking about the dignity of Polish citizens, the government has decided that next year the minimum wage will amount to 2 thousand. zł – said the head of government of Law and Justice deputy. This higher amount than MRPiPS been proposed.


 
 

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Resort family and work proposed to the government the amount of 1920 zł. The Council of Ministers decided that this amount insufficient. Currently, the minimum wage is 1850 zł.


 

The decision ws. The minimum wage, as emphasized by the Prime Minister, is a decision of the whole government. A decision that – as said – is an expression of a sense of responsibility for Polish citizens and social justice.


 

– In Poland, the situation in which stratification occurs very quickly, they are a group of very well-off, increasing the average salary, (…) but it is a huge number of these employees, who have very low salaries, who received a salary are not able to maintain the family – said the Prime Minister. She said that her government from the outset indicated that priority is worthy of life of Poles.


 

Public consultations

 

Now the government proposals will be presented to the Social Dialogue arrangements for the forum with trade unions and employers’ organizations.


 

If the social side accepts, the minimum hourly rate would be 13 gold – said Minister Elżbieta Rafalska family. So far, the government’s proposal was 12 dollars.


 

Rafalska spoke at the conference after a cabinet meeting that the proposal regarding higher. Minimum wage in 2017. Is “very good news for the more than 1.3 million Poles, who so far had a minimal salary.”


 

– It is also, if adopted such a regulation relates to the minimum hourly rate, it will be reflected in the amount of the minimum hourly rate. If this variant, which was agreed with the social is accepted, then the hourly minimum was 13 the zloty – announced Rafalska.


 

Now in the project introducing the minimum hourly rate proposed 12 zł.


 

The government has also taken decisions on indexation of pensions in the next year. What will be the specific amount will be known only in February 2017. When the CSO will announce the rates for inflation and wage growth in 2016. Valorisation is carried out in March.

Tax on retail sales

 

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Cabinet decision was taken on the draft law on tax on retail sales.


 

– I can say that we managed to prepare a solution – after discussions – which, in the opinion of entrepreneurs, employers, the social side, and that in my opinion – it fulfills all the expectations of stakeholders. It is a good option. First of all, it leads (…) to guarantee equal rights and equal opportunities for Polish small businesses trading with these big commercial giants – said Prime Minister Awl.


 

– I want to say that this bill is an example that we can, that the government can talk and have a dialogue (…) because that’s when they were prepared assumptions for the project, which do not fully meet the expectations mainly entrepreneurs, employers, then managed in this dialogue to work out a compromise, which today has become a draft law adopted by the government – added the Prime Minister.

 

The project by the Ministry of Finance envisages the introduction of two tax rates – 0.8 percent. of revenue between 17 million and 170 million zł zł per month and 1.4 percent. – On income above 170 million zł per month.


 

The project assumes that the tax will be subject to income from retail sales, ie sales made to consumers (individuals not engaged in economic activity and the rate farmers).


 

The tax will not sell on the Internet.


 

Revenue from retail sales will not include the VAT due. The tax base will not be included sales to traders. The project does not provide for the taxation of sales made on the Internet.


 

The new tax payers to be retailers making the sale of goods (goods or parts of them). The draft does not contain any specific solutions for retailers operating within the commercial networks.


 

“This is a great unknown”

 

Initially, this tax was concern only hypermarkets – noted the head of the club PO Slawomir Neumann. He added that later turned out that the tax will apply to trade in general. – We’ll see what comes out of the Parliament – says policies. In his opinion, the effects of this tax will be felt by consumers because it will be included in product prices.


 

As for the budget assumptions, that the PO politician, there is a great unknown, especially in the context of a referendum in the UK, to be held June 23. Neumann believes that if it will exit the country from the European Union, it may be the next wave of crisis. – It will be a completely different thoughts to what macroeconomics, at the exchange rate in the world, inflation, everything that can be associated with the budget – said the politician.


 

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