News

Exempting people under 26 from PIT is unfair. On the one hand, the government sees no problem in the fact that the wages of 27-year-olds earning a minimum wage (PLN 1774 net) are burdened with 40% taxes and contributions, including PLN 150 PIT, and on the other hand, it proposes to exempt over 3 times better earning 25-year-olds from PIT, thanks to which their net income will increase from PLN 5,909 to PLN 6,584, and the total tax burden will fall to 35%.

The Minister of Justice feels that the opinion of the Advocate General of the EU Court of Justice Evgeni Tanchev is incompatible with EU law and constitutes a "defence of pathology in the Polish judiciary." 

The Supreme Administrative Court dismissed the cassation complaint of the Head of the Chancellery of the Sejm against the disclosure of letters of support for candidates for the new Council of the Judiciary.

The introduction of the controversial 500+ program in Poland has so far resulted in no increase in fertility rate. Noteworthy, 12% of the program budget would be sufficient to eliminate extreme child poverty. Meanwhile, 100,000 women were pushed out of the labor market.

On Tuesday, June 18, 2019, the European Court of Justice considered two preliminary requests submitted by courts in Lodz and Warsaw. Both courts are concerned whether the new system of disciplinary proceedings against judges meets EU standards, particularly those enshrined in the principle of effective judicial protection. However, the hearing was mainly focused not on particular provisions of law questioned by the Polish courts, but on the admissibility of the questions these courts referred to the ECJ.

On 24 June 2019 the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on the European Commission's complaint against Poland concerning the lowering of the retirement age of Supreme Court judges and making further decisions conditional on the President's decision.

During the last national council, the PSL (Polish Peasant’s Party) repeated a number of its earlier proposals, the implementation of which would lead to a deterioration in the state of public finances. Returning to these proposals in a situation of growing deficit caused by the implementation of the Law and Justice party election promises is dangerous for Polish public finances.

30 years ago the first free elections after World War II took place in Poland. The important part of the transition that begun at that time was Balcerowicz Plan – a comprehensive economic reform that aimed to implement free-market capitalism. As a result, during last 30 years the Polish economy has developed tremendously. Nonetheless, among commentators, politicians and ordinary people, one can often find the opinion that the economic transition did not bring Poles much good. Therefore, in a series of charts illustrating the changes that have taken place in our country, we will deal with the most common myths about the Polish economy.

On 27 May 2019, the seventh verdict in favour of transparency was passed. The Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw ruled that the President of the Supreme Administrative Court had no right to refuse the disclosure of the names of judges from the administrative courts who supported candidates for the new NCJ.