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Depreciation in real estate companies – how should the January and April 2025 rulings of the Polish Supreme Administrative Court be interpreted?
Two divergent sets of rulings issued by the Polish Supreme Administrative Court (NSA) in January and April 2025 interpret Article 15(6) of the Polish Corporate Income Tax Act (CIT) in completely different ways. The former impose on real estate companies a limit based on “hypothetical” accounting depreciation, whereas the latter... Read More →
Changes to property tax in Poland from 1 January 2025
On 27th of November 2024, the President of Poland signed an amendment to the Act on Local Taxes and Charges, as well as other tax-related legislation. The new regulations, which will come into effect as on 1st of January 2025, aim to improve transparency, simplify procedures, and clarify key definitions... Read More →
Government plans tax on vacant residential real estate
According to research institutions, the housing shortage in Poland is about 1.5 to 2 million apartments. At the same time, however, there are around 1.8 million vacant apartments, according to the CIS statistics office. In order to resolve this imbalance and combat speculation on housing prices, the government announced at... Read More →
Deadline for submission of information by real estate companies and their partners
We would like to remind you of the upcoming deadline for the obligation to submit certain information regarding real estate companies for 2022 to the competent tax authorities (for most taxpayers, the deadline is 31 March 2023). The entities obliged to submit the information are real estate companies and PIT/CIT... Read More →
Property development companies vs. real estate companies
According to the recently presented position of the Director of the National Revenue Information, a real estate developer engaged in the construction of residential and non-residential buildings and their sale may be deemed a real estate company on the grounds of income tax regulations, thus resulting in the obligation to... Read More →
CEE Real Estate Market Outlook: brief overview by Mark Robinson
CEE Research Specialist, Mark Robinson giving a brief overview on the outlook for 2017 Central Eastern Europe (CEE) markets
Information requirements for the purchase of real estate by foreigners in Poland
The legislature has expanded the information requirements for the purchase of real estate by foreigners. Notaries are now obliged to submit to the Ministry of Interior, Warsaw. Also, notarised contracts for the sale of shares, shareholder shares or rights and obligations on the basis of which foreigners become owners or... Read More →
The real estate tax in Poland 2017
The real estate tax rates for the year 2017 have remained virtually unchanged, compared to the tax provisions of 2016. The upper limit, at the discretion of the respective municipality or town, whether or not they are exhausted, are as follows for this year:
Determining the taxpayer’s property tax in relation to structures erected on wind farms
If a property, which is erected with the buildings for wind turbines (the foundations, masts, street and square paving, outer wall, fencing, pipelines), is owned by farmers, and this land was leased for 25 years by the wind farms developers, the parties that pay tax on the land are the... Read More →
