Paul Szałamacha a member of the Board of Directors of the BANK – Onet.pl

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Paul Szałamacha was recalled from the post of Minister of Finance in late September. He was replaced by Matthew Morawiecki, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of development.

Immediately after its cancellation, Prime Minister Beata Shiloh said Szałamacha “out of the Ministry of Finance, while he will have a very responsible job”. Another time she added that Szałamacha got her job offers and “there was this one sentence”.

In the media appeared information on possibility of a premise of the former Minister to the office of Chairman of the Committee for Financial Supervision after the deadline, Andrew Jakubiaku. He Szałamacha when asked about this possibility said that, most likely, does not meet the requirements, this means, for example, a few years of work on the head post in the penalty.

Paul Szałamacha was in for 10 months, starting in November 2015, the head MF in the government Blows with an Awl. At the beginning of the convocation have developed and implemented banking tax, and in the middle of the year managed to run the so-called package of fuel, which has significantly improved the collection of VAT in the fuel sector. In the fight against extortion of taxes, there were other successes, managed to enter the so-called single checkpoint file, is opposed to the avoidance of taxation, and at the end of the Board Szałamachy was born the “big” amendment to the VAT act, designed to become a main tool in the fight with a hole in the VAT for two persons. Also prepared a draft law on the National Tax Administration, ujednolicającej services, government and customs.

when Asked, shortly after retirement, why not to continue on the post of the Minister of Finance, he said, “This turn bought the political scene”. Dopytywany that event forced him to take such decisions, he replied: “At the turn of events in the last days.”

Dopytywany, whether we are talking about the conflict with Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of development Matthew Morawieckim, he said, “we should ask the Prime Minister Morawieckiego. I don’t have any conflicts. I am a very gentle person,” he said.

Currently, the management Board consists of: Chairman Adam Glapiński, first Deputy Chairman Peter Primrose, Vice-President Anna Trzecińska and members of the management Board Jacek Bartkiewicz, Andrew Kaźmierczak, Richard Kokoszczyński, Pavel Samecki and Katarzyna Seidel-Kurowska. Szałamacha will be the ninth member of the Board of Directors.