Deregulation project adopted. However, a key recipe came out for business
In the draft law adopted by the government, the deregulation lacked a provision preventing the tax authorities from extending the limitation period for tax liabilities. However, the solution expected by the business may return.
On Tuesday, the government adopted a bill that is to reduce bureaucracy in various areas, primarily in the relations of entrepreneurs with various offices. The project changes 25 laws regarding various aspects of doing business. In addition to many favorable changes, it also brings a lot to disappoint.
Deregulation. There is no key entry
“Rzeczpospolita” points out that the project lacks a flagship promise, i.e. removing a provision that allows artificial extending of the limitation period for tax liabilities. – This was to be the end of chronic controls in companies and the arbitrariness of tax officials, unjustly accusing taxpayers of crime. The Ministry of Development and Technology planned to delete a provision allowing practices that not only spoil the good name of entrepreneurs, but also artificially extend the five -year limitation period for taxes – writes the newspaper.
For now, however, nothing came of it, because the project lacks records in this matter. According to the journal, it cannot be ruled out that the changes expected by entrepreneurs will appear in the draft amendment to the Tax Code, the announcement of which was included in the list of legislative works of the government. Even if this happens, the implementation of the postulate will be delayed by at least a few months.
The idea will come back?
“Rzeczpospolita” points out that one more scenario is possible – a proposal regarding the limitation period for tax liabilities suddenly disappeared from the government project just to spectacularly reborn in the implementation of ideas proposed by Rafał Brzoski’s team. Then the government and the team could announce a success, emphasizing that their common merit is to remove the troublesome solution for the business.
– You can understand the reasons for the Ministry of Finance as to ensuring the possibility of effective prosecution of tax criminals, but the law should not allow instrumental to institute tax proceedings against all entrepreneurs – comments Przemysław Pruszyński, tax expert of the Lewiatan Confederation in Rzeczpospolita.
