The main subject of the study are analysis and evalution of actual possiblities of limiting public expeditures in Poland, in paricular welfare expeditures. Accomplishment of this aim, necessary inconditions of the deepening country’s budget deficit and the national debt, comes not only across essential barriers of legal nature but especially of economic and social nature. The attention of the authoris focused on the analysis of these barriers.
The subject of the paper is an analysis and evaluation of new laws regarding personal income tax implemented from the 1st January 2015 as well as proposals rejected by the Polish Parliament including reasons for the rejection. Due to that, the expected range of change was significantly narrowed, focusing on family tax relief measures only that can be used for 2014 tax settlements. The main change will affect only large families. Therefore, it is not possible to consider this expected reform of the whole personal income tax law, that has already been partially modified over 200 times. The introduced changes are indeed necessary and beneficial for the society, however, they were introduced too late. It was significantly unfair that families with low income and a lot of children were not allowed to benefit form family tax relief for so long. The problem with the personal tax law – too small tax-free threshold still remains in place and in practice it means taxing income necessary for biological survival of a taxpayer.
This paper is devoted to analysis and evaluation of recent changes that have taken place in the structure of Polish personal income tax, with particular emphasis on tax-free amount. The main effect of these changes is the increase of the tax-free minimum in comparison to the level of subsistence minimum as well as the statutory obligation of the Minister of Finance to verify both these volumes. The authoress positively assesses the introduced changes, noting that they should be treated as an introduction to the discussion on a new model of taxation of natural persons in Poland.
This paper is devoted to analysis and evaluation of recent changes that have taken place in the structure of Polish personal income tax, with particular emphasis on tax-free amount. The main effect of these changes is the increase of the tax-free minimum in comparison to the level of subsistence minimum as well as the statutory obligation of the Minister of Finance to verify both these volumes. The authoress positively assesses the introduced changes, noting that they should be treated as an introduction to the discussion on a new model of taxation of natural persons in Poland.
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Przedmiotem opracowania jest analiza i ocena najnowszych zmian, jakie nastąpiły w konstrukcji podatku dochodowego od osób fizycznych, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem kwoty wolnej od podatku. Głównym efektem tychże zmian jest podwyższenie minimum wolnego od podatku do poziomu minimum egzystencji oraz ustawowy obowiązek Ministra Finansów corocznej weryfikacji obu tych wielkości. Autorka pozytywnie ocenia wprowadzone zmiany, zauważając jednocześnie, iż powinny być traktowane jako wstęp do dyskusji nad nowym modelem opodatkowania osób fizycznych w Polsce.