Polish opposition leaders have said they will hold joint consultations on how to stop a controversial tax on media advertising revenue that some have claimed threatens free speech.
EC spokesperson Christian Wigand on Wednesday expressed the Commission's fears over media pluralism in Poland in connection with the government's plans to tax advertising revenue.
Sections of the privately owned media in Poland imposed a news blackout on Wednesday morning in protest over a proposed new tax on advertising revenue.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has defended a planned tax on media advertising revenue by saying it is intended to level the playing field for domestic companies against multinational corporations.
A leading independent television network in Poland has claimed a new advertising tax could limit freedom of speech.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has called for a "global crusade" against tax evasion, and a European convention to help fight the “VAT mafia”.
Poland’s finance minister said he wants as much money to stay in people’s pockets so that it spurs consumption and helps the country out of the coronavirus-induced recession.
The Polish tax on retail sales and the Hungarian tax on advertising do not infringe upon EU laws with regard to state aid, advocate general for the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) Juliane Kokott said in an opinion issued on Thursday.
A tax break for entrepreneurs, that will allow the deduction of 50 percent costs incurred for investments in automation by Polish companies, will total PLN 1.1 billion (EUR 247.2 million) over five years, Development Minister Jadwiga Emilewicz said on Friday.
Polish and Ukrainian finance ministers have signed a bilateral declaration on strengthening cooperation in fighting tax fraud and carousel VAT fraud, the Polish Finance Ministry reported on Friday.
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