VAT rates in Poland 2024
Date11 Apr 2024
Value Added Tax (VAT) is one of the key elements in conducting e-commerce activities in Poland. Understanding the current VAT rates can have a significant impact on your business decisions […]
Poland’s VAT rate change on food from April 1, 2024: Impact on e-commerce
Date22 Mar 2024
The Ministry of Finance recently announced a decision to raise the VAT rate on basic food products from April 1, 2024. Instead of the previous zero VAT rate, which had […]
Information about One Stop Shop (OSS)
Date24 May 2021
Until now, all e-commerce companies from the EU that sell goods to other EU countries, after exceeding a certain sales threshold (depending on the country the threshold ranges from EUR […]
SLIM VAT – Change in the rules from 1 January 2021 regarding domestic negative credit notes with Polish VAT of sales and purchase invoices – Examples
Date24 Mar 2021
On 1 January 2021, the so-called SLIM VAT (Simple, Local And Modern VAT) came into force, introducing changes with regard to the settlement of negative credit notes. As a result […]
Poland – Foreign Companies ‘Fixed-Establishment’
Date07 Nov 2017
Poland is progressively altering its attitude regarding the conception of ‘fixed establishment’ for VAT purposes. The Polish tax authorities and courts are taking an expanding approach concerning those activities of […]
e-Commerce platforms could be liable for VAT fraud proposes the EU
Date03 Oct 2017
The EU is continuing with suggestions to enforce obligations to online marketplaces for VAT fraud committed by non-EU merchants on their e-Commerce platforms. This move will endeavour to tackle over […]
Retail Sales Tax postponed by Poland
Date19 Sep 2017
Poland has postponed the implementation date of the new ‘Retail Sales Tax’ following the challenges of the European Commission (EC). This initiative comprised of a turnover tax levied on established […]
Poland – VAT split payments delayed until April 2018
Date14 Sep 2017
The introduction of anti-VAT Split Payments has been delayed until 1st April, 2018 Poland has announced. The original date had been 1st January, 2018. To explain ‘Split Payments’, this is […]
Poland VAT – Split Payments 2018
Date03 Aug 2017
From the 1st January 2018, Poland will introduce a voluntary anti-VAT Fraud split payment mechanism. This system will ONLY apply on domestic transactions and will not affect invoice requirements. B2C […]
Poland – Automatic De-registrations
Date13 Jun 2017
Over 35,000 businesses in Poland have been de-registered by the tax authorities in the last few months. This is expected to continue in the coming months as part of an […]
Poland considers VAT split payments from 2018
Date25 May 2017
Voluntary VAT split payments system is being considered by Poland, introducing from 2018. This measure, which will include customers paying VAT into a unique, locked bank account, is intended to […]
Security deposit when registering as a VAT taxpayer
Date13 Feb 2017
The PiS government has introduced a new fiscal instrument to combat tax fraud, with the registration termination starting in 2017. The payment of a security deposit for the declaration of […]
VAT Anti-Fraud Measures (Poland)
Date04 Jan 2017
From the 1st January, 2017 Poland introduced a range of anti-VAT fraud measures, these include: No longer are VAT registrations automatically granted as part of a business’ incorporation process VAT […]
An entirely new law on VAT will come into effect on 1st January 2016
Date11 Dec 2015
The lack of ability to obtain an advance ruling on individual tax rulings on sales VAT issues, meant for taxpayers they would be deprived of the only possible instrument to […]
Polish ruling party plans to lower VAT to 22% from 2016: report
Date11 Sep 2015
Poland’s ruling Civic Platform (PO) party plans to lower Value Added Tax (VAT) to 22% starting from 2016 from 23% now and exempt the under 30-years-olds from paying the personal […]
The Polish VAT Act is to be amended from 1 July 2015
Date09 Sep 2015
Changes to the Act include: The rules on a customer’s liability for VAT have been extend on precious metals and certain types of photographic equipment Changes to the deposit calculations […]