Big Techów pressed. Digital tax only from 2027

Every Polish company would like to have so many customers. In 2025, about 27.1 million Poles use Google search engine, and 29 million compatriots from the Google group – reports a report of Polish internet research (PBI). This shows how strong a player is on the Polish Google market.

Digital tax is not easy to enter. In 2019, the government of Mateusz Morawiecki gave it up very quickly. In 2025, more and more vague promises are due to the same topic from the government of Donald Tusk. One does not change – a strong, loud and clear opposition from the American government.

Facts about taxation of American companies in Poland

Jacek Świderski, president of the media company WP Holding announced that in 2024 his company paid PLN 55.5 million of CIT in Poland with revenues of PLN 1.36 billion. Google Poland had PLN 1.53 billion in revenues and PLN 45.1 million, and Facebook – PLN 1.82 billion in revenues and only PLN 9.6 million CIT. In total, it is PLN 54.7 million.

It turns out that WP Holding paid higher taxes in Poland than Facebook and Google combined, despite the higher revenues of American companies.

How is this possible? Very simple: high tax deductible costs that reduce the tax base.

The withdrawal of digital tax in Poland was announced by the American

In February 2019, after a security conference in Munich, then Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that he was supporting the initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron to introduce digital tax “imposed on international companies that avoid paying taxes in Europe in general, including in Poland they do not pay tax proportional to the business they have.”

The new tax was to apply from 2020 and was even included in the long -term state financing plan. Its size was calculated at almost one and a half billion a year.

Unexpectedly, during the September 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, Poles suddenly heard from the then US vice president Mike Pence that “the United States express deep gratitude because of rejecting the proposal of tax on digital services, which hindered trade between our countries.” PiS politicians took water in the mouth. Mateusz Morawiecki was even tempted to say that a billion zlotys is not so much.

The minister of digitization gave the key date

In March 2025, the Ministry of Digitization returned to digital tax. SZef of this ministry, Krzysztof Gawkowski then argued that “Various types of taxes on activities in the digital sphere operate in 35 countries. ”

In his opinion, the profits from the digital tax “could work for the development of Polish technology companies, support Polish start-ups, Deep Tech, cloud enterprises or creating qualitative content by the media”-he explained.

You didn’t have to wait a long time for a reaction. In March, the US ambassador in Warsaw Tom Rose began to threaten Poland with “consequences”.

In July 2025, Minister Gawkowski announced that it is more likely to implement digital tax in 2027 than in 2026. He did not hide that the implementation of digital tax would require a broad political agreement. He also gave his height: “We are constantly oscillating between 3 and 6 percent, depending on what analyzes are.”