An important for the property development sector and interesting from the VAT point of view ruling was issued by the CJEU on November 7th, 2024. The case C-594/23 (Lomoco Development ApS and others) was between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and several property development companies....

GloBE Act signed by the President of Poland On 15 November this year the President of Poland signed the Act of 6 November 2024 on the top-up tax of constituent entities of multinational and domestic groups! The Act will soon be promulgated in the Polish Journal of Laws.   The Act...

Poland’s minimum income tax[1] may be particularly burdensome for the tobacco industry and international aircraft charter companies. What does this mean for entrepreneurs? The tobacco industry will not pay the minimum income tax For calculating the loss or level of profitability,...

Cash PIT from January 2025 Starting January 1, 2025, certain entrepreneurs conducting sole proprietorships will be able to opt for cash PIT method. What is cash PIT method? Currently, entrepreneurs recognize revenue on an accrual basis, regardless of when payments are settled. This...

The definition of ‘real estate company’ and the doubts related to it According to the regulations, a real estate company is an entity, other than a natural person, obliged to prepare a balance sheet on the basis of accounting regulations, in which at least 50% of the balance sheet...

GloBE Act in the final legislative stage The Polish Parliament enacted the Act of 6 November 2024 on the top-up tax of constituent entities of multinational and domestic groups. The Act is awaiting the signature of the President of Poland. The Act of 6 November 2024 on the top-up...

The Ministry apparently decided to dose up the excitement about the KSeF project and a week after the publication of the assumptions of the draft law amending the law introducing the compulsory KSeF in the list of legislative works of the Council of Ministers, a draft law with an...

A Polish branch of a foreign company that is a permanent establishment may be part of a group and benefit from a preferential tax rate on income from qualified intellectual property rights. 18 July 2022. The Director of the National Fiscal Information [KIS Director] issued an tax...

The ViDA package was ‘finally’ adopted After almost two years of negotiations, an agreement was reached in the Council yesterday (5.11). The package of changes itself, which concerns not only the 2006/112 Directive as such, presented at the end of 2022, generated a lot...

Among others, tax capital groups (hereinafter: PGK) are subject to the minimum tax if: (a) incurred a loss in the tax year from a source of income other than capital gains, or (b) achieved a share of income from a source of income other than capital gains in income from that source...

After a temporary pause following the government’s decision earlier this year to delay the implementation of KSeF until 2026, it appears that the topic has once again returned to the government’s and Ministry of Finance’s agenda. In early October, we received news that final...

As the year draws to a close, companies are preparing their final accounts for 2024. Now is the last opportunity to carefully review and make any necessary adjustments to settlements, pricing, or contract terms. The adjustments themselves continue to raise numerous interpretative...

Family foundation it is something that has not been known to Polish legal system until May 2023. As a family foundation is generally exempt from income tax, this exemption is the one that stirs up the most emotion. For this reason, potential founders or existing foundations seek to...

On Monday 21 October 2024, the Supreme Administrative Court [hereinafter: NSA] adopted a resolution by a panel of seven judges (ref. III FPS 1/24) concerning the right of the Head of the National Tax Administration [hereinafter: KAS] to impose penalties on banks and other institutions...

Since May 2024 this year, the Director of the National Tax Information has issued several individual tax rulings changing the hitherto relatively uniform line of interpretation of the look-through approach (LTA) in withholding tax. The LTA consists of disregarding the formal recipients...