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“Anti-Crisis Shield 4.0” – support for Polish companies
We regularly inform you about successive governmental bills referred to as “anti-crisis shields”. On 31st March 2020 this year the Anti-crisis shield 1.0. was adopted and entered into force on the very same day. On 18th April 2020 the Anti-crisis shield 2.0. entered into force. On 16th May 2020 the...
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Since 1 July 2020 a new matrix of VAT rates has been applied
Pursuant to the Act of 9 August 2019 amending the Value Added Tax and several other acts (Journal of Laws of 2019 item 1751, 2200 and of 2020, item 568), since 1 July 2020 a new matrix of VAT rates has been applied. Once in force, the Polish Classification of...
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“Anti-Crisis Shield 3.0” – support for Polish entrepreneurs
We regularly inform you about successive governmental bills referred to as “Anti-Crisis Shields”. On 31st March this year the Anti-Crisis Shield 1.0 was adopted and entered into force on the very same day. On 18th April the Anti-Crisis Shield 2.0 entered into force. On 28-29th April 2020 further drafts were...
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Financial shield implemented by the Polski Fundusz Rozwoju S.A. (PFR)
Support mechanisms adopted so far by the Polish government, consisting of the so-called anti-crisis shield, turn out to be insufficient from the perspective of the needs of the entrepreneurs who are suffering the negative economic consequences of the COVID-19 epidemic. The government therefore decided to introduce an additional support programme...
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PFR ‘Financial Shield’ for micro, small and medium-sized businesses
We would like to inform you that on 27th April 2020, the support programme for micro, small and medium-sized businesses implemented by the Polish Development Fund (the so-called ‘PFR Financial Shield’) was approved by the European Commission (EC). Applications should be submitted via internet banking, operated by the banks listed...
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Polish taxpayers have the possibility to deduct donations made to combat COVID-19 from their tax base
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that according to the (new Polish) ‘Anti-Crisis’ Act in order to calculate CIT/PIT income tax or tax advance payments, taxpayers have the possibility to deduct from their tax base donations made from January to September 2020 to combat COVID-19. A...
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Anti-crisis shield 2.0 – support for Polish entrepreneurs
Update: 21.04.2020 The package of laws under the anti-crisis shield have come into force. On 31st March 2020, the Journal of Laws published and thus entered into force a package of laws under the so-called ‘Anti-Crisis Shield’. On the 16th April 2020 a new law was already passed called ’Anti-Crisis...
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Extension of the deadline for filing the CIT-8 corporate income tax return and for the payment of corporate income tax
In connection with the signing by the Polish Minister of Finance of the Decree of 27th March, 2020 extending the deadline for filing the declaration of the amount of income earned (or losses incurred, if any) and payment of the resulting corporate income tax of legal entities (Appendix Dz. U....
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New Tax relief – IP Box in Poland
From January 1, 2019, onwards the IP BOX (Intellectual Property Box) relief is in force in the Polish tax system, available for selected taxpayers allowing them the application of a preferential 5% rate in the PIT and CIT income tax regimes, instead of the standard rate for incomes classified as...
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The tightening of the rules on documentation of intra-Community supplies of goods
The revision of EU legislation (Council implementing regulation 2018/1912) will bring about some fairly significant changes in the settlement of cross-border transactions from 1st January 2020. One of them is a tightening of the rules on how companies document their intra-Community supplies of goods and apply a 0% rate to...
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