“Turns out” its common knowledge amongst people who have any idea about our taxation system and finances
But there is so much media propaganda on how high the taxes allegedly are in poland that many people have no idea whats the actual numbers
Yea, but too many people are dumb enough to believe the propaganda or to check it.
It’s actually depends on your PKD code. It can be 3%, and it can be ~20%.
But from my point of view, the biggest downside is a huge ZUS.
Full ZUS costs like a 10% tax from 20 000 PLN on invoice (it’s almost 2000 PLN on duży ZUS).
But ZUS is paid even if you had no earnings this month. I think ZUS adds 10-20% of taxes to most JDGs.
That’s true, but the govt. policies for small firms trying to get their paperwork done are such a pain in the ass that despite the relatively low tax you’re likely to go under just from sheer pressure of red tape. Having a company in Finland is suuuch a breeze compared to Poland even though I pay double the tax.
Need a permit? One email and done. Applying for something? 2 minutes on a website, filling a form. Tax forms? No problems, no hassle.
Meanwhile in Poland getting a stamp on every single fucking thing was basically a full time job in itself with every single shitty beurocrat in the window thinking they’re the most important person on the planet and their job is to make you suffer.
It turns out that using a “small” company with 5-9 employees, $1 million in revenue and $100k in net profit is fcking stupid.
How many companies meet that? Willing to bet almost none.
Nope, this is bullshit. Income tax is just one of many taxes you have to pay and in Poland there is a tendency to hide taxes in other ways, for example with high health insurance.
It’s not exactly a secret. This is one of the reasons we have a huge outsourcing industry (probably the main one). Companies pay almost nothing but then the employees need to pay this from their salary. If you consider gross and net annual salary it can be more than 40% between one tax and another
But the problem for small companies in Poland isn’t taxes. The problem in Poland is ZUS.
This is so incomplete lol
Bullshit. PIT5 (income tax) 12% + 9% ZUS (health insurance – another income tax) + 1500 ZUS (retirement and social contribution) for JDG. Yeah, tax heaven.
Those complaining about ZUS don’t realise this is not something you have to pay if your company has multiple shareholders and none of them draw incomes from company profits
This map is total bullshit… Sorry for strong words but Ireland is famous of not giving high taxation to corporations and freelance businesses… They were punished for this by EU. Poland has really high taxed for own business.
Now guess which political party is the only one that is in favour of fixing this issue
does it include every tax in this sick country?
9% is just “składka zdrowotna” “na skali”,
ZUS is technically not a tax that’s why. It’s inaccurate.
This map is totally incorrect, It only applies to companies and not small businesses. In Poland small businesses are commonly run by individuals while companies are usually bigger businesses due to more complex tax regulations for companies. Income tax in Poland for individuals is 19% if its linear or if it’s progressive then it starts from 12% and raises to 32% after exceeding 120k PLN of income – which is going to happen for most businesses, even if they’re small. Also to that you need to add all the social security contributions which can be pretty high for small business owners. The complexity is another thing, people need to pay for accounting services just to deal with the tax forms.
That’s why we are growing we are great place to invest
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“Turns out” its common knowledge amongst people who have any idea about our taxation system and finances
But there is so much media propaganda on how high the taxes allegedly are in poland that many people have no idea whats the actual numbers
Yea, but too many people are dumb enough to believe the propaganda or to check it.
It’s actually depends on your PKD code. It can be 3%, and it can be ~20%.
But from my point of view, the biggest downside is a huge ZUS.
Full ZUS costs like a 10% tax from 20 000 PLN on invoice (it’s almost 2000 PLN on duży ZUS).
But ZUS is paid even if you had no earnings this month. I think ZUS adds 10-20% of taxes to most JDGs.
That’s true, but the govt. policies for small firms trying to get their paperwork done are such a pain in the ass that despite the relatively low tax you’re likely to go under just from sheer pressure of red tape. Having a company in Finland is suuuch a breeze compared to Poland even though I pay double the tax.
Need a permit? One email and done. Applying for something? 2 minutes on a website, filling a form. Tax forms? No problems, no hassle.
Meanwhile in Poland getting a stamp on every single fucking thing was basically a full time job in itself with every single shitty beurocrat in the window thinking they’re the most important person on the planet and their job is to make you suffer.
It turns out that using a “small” company with 5-9 employees, $1 million in revenue and $100k in net profit is fcking stupid.
How many companies meet that? Willing to bet almost none.
Nope, this is bullshit. Income tax is just one of many taxes you have to pay and in Poland there is a tendency to hide taxes in other ways, for example with high health insurance.
It’s not exactly a secret. This is one of the reasons we have a huge outsourcing industry (probably the main one). Companies pay almost nothing but then the employees need to pay this from their salary. If you consider gross and net annual salary it can be more than 40% between one tax and another
But the problem for small companies in Poland isn’t taxes. The problem in Poland is ZUS.
This is so incomplete lol
Bullshit. PIT5 (income tax) 12% + 9% ZUS (health insurance – another income tax) + 1500 ZUS (retirement and social contribution) for JDG. Yeah, tax heaven.
Those complaining about ZUS don’t realise this is not something you have to pay if your company has multiple shareholders and none of them draw incomes from company profits
This map is total bullshit… Sorry for strong words but Ireland is famous of not giving high taxation to corporations and freelance businesses… They were punished for this by EU. Poland has really high taxed for own business.
Now guess which political party is the only one that is in favour of fixing this issue
does it include every tax in this sick country?
9% is just “składka zdrowotna” “na skali”,
ZUS is technically not a tax that’s why. It’s inaccurate.
This map is totally incorrect, It only applies to companies and not small businesses. In Poland small businesses are commonly run by individuals while companies are usually bigger businesses due to more complex tax regulations for companies. Income tax in Poland for individuals is 19% if its linear or if it’s progressive then it starts from 12% and raises to 32% after exceeding 120k PLN of income – which is going to happen for most businesses, even if they’re small. Also to that you need to add all the social security contributions which can be pretty high for small business owners. The complexity is another thing, people need to pay for accounting services just to deal with the tax forms.
That’s why we are growing we are great place to invest
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