**Will there be a luxury tax? Morawiecki: we are thinking about it.**
– A tax on luxury? As much as possible, I would not be against it – announced Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday during a Q&A panel with Internet users. According to him, the prices of “luxury” goods already give us a surrogate of what it might look like in the future.
– Excise duty for some goods works like that. Above all, let’s make sure that the (tax) system is progressive and effective, Morawiecki said on Friday in the context of the so-called luxury tax.
– A tax on luxury? As much as possible, I would not be against it – announced Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday during a Q&A panel with Internet users. According to him, the prices of “luxury” goods already give us a surrogate of what it might look like in the future.
During the Q&A panel, the Prime Minister also commented on the issue of rising fuel prices. As he stressed, in 2012 petrol also cost 6 PLN per litre, but the minimum salary was around 1500 PLN. – This one, from 1 January, will amount to 3000 PLN. So it cost the same then, but you could buy twice less petrol than today – he explained.
**Morawiecki on inflation**
Morawiecki was also asked about inflation. In response, he indicated that the responsibility lies largely with the National Bank of Poland and the Monetary Policy Council. – Institutions independent of the government, therefore relying on their analyses I welcomed the decision to change interest rates – he added. This is an impulse for financial markets, which monitor the prices of Polish bonds, he stressed.
The head of government took the opportunity to call on internet users to pay attention to the “great influence” of the financial markets and phenomena over which “neither one nor the other has any influence”, such as the rise in the cost of raw materials.
**Fight against smog**
– Within the framework of the “clean air” programme, we have already replaced ca. 330 thousand of the so-called “fossil fuels”, and over 5.5 billion zlotys were spent on thermomodernization programmes – enumerated Morawiecki, trying to answer the question about the government’s fight with smog.
The head of government also boasted of spending around 7.5 billion PLN on programmes related to ensuring clean air. He added in passing that many taxpayers took advantage of the thermomodernisation relief (also 7.5 billion zlotys).
**Electricity subsidies**
Next year, the Polish government will allocate at least PLN 1.5 billion for electricity subsidies. As Morawiecki stressed, the budget calculations take into account an increase in spending for this purpose at the level of PLN 3 to 5 billion.
Under the new regulations, more energy consumers will be covered by the “sensitive” category. In practice, this is supposed to provide them with less severe electricity bills. The draft also provides for a ban on withholding energy supplies for this group of recipients.
**VAT revenue**
The head of government also did not avoid questions about VAT revenues. As he announced, in 2021 VAT revenues should exceed PLN 210 billion. The Prime Minister also added that the “biggest pro-worker revolution in taxes” in the form of the Polish Deal is currently being implemented.
Not the worst idea
VATeusz is onto us once again!!
And whats considered luxury?
If you put an extra tax on luxury items only the rich will be able afford them and you end up with even larger differences in living standards. Most people can afford a luxury item every now and then, but with an extra tax they might not.
Prime Minister of Poland is a useless stooge.
PiS consider everyone that isn’t living on welfare to live in luxury so it will be another tax that will hit me and the really wealthy will heave a way to avoid it.
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**Will there be a luxury tax? Morawiecki: we are thinking about it.**
– A tax on luxury? As much as possible, I would not be against it – announced Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday during a Q&A panel with Internet users. According to him, the prices of “luxury” goods already give us a surrogate of what it might look like in the future.
– Excise duty for some goods works like that. Above all, let’s make sure that the (tax) system is progressive and effective, Morawiecki said on Friday in the context of the so-called luxury tax.
– A tax on luxury? As much as possible, I would not be against it – announced Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki on Friday during a Q&A panel with Internet users. According to him, the prices of “luxury” goods already give us a surrogate of what it might look like in the future.
During the Q&A panel, the Prime Minister also commented on the issue of rising fuel prices. As he stressed, in 2012 petrol also cost 6 PLN per litre, but the minimum salary was around 1500 PLN. – This one, from 1 January, will amount to 3000 PLN. So it cost the same then, but you could buy twice less petrol than today – he explained.
**Morawiecki on inflation**
Morawiecki was also asked about inflation. In response, he indicated that the responsibility lies largely with the National Bank of Poland and the Monetary Policy Council. – Institutions independent of the government, therefore relying on their analyses I welcomed the decision to change interest rates – he added. This is an impulse for financial markets, which monitor the prices of Polish bonds, he stressed.
The head of government took the opportunity to call on internet users to pay attention to the “great influence” of the financial markets and phenomena over which “neither one nor the other has any influence”, such as the rise in the cost of raw materials.
**Fight against smog**
– Within the framework of the “clean air” programme, we have already replaced ca. 330 thousand of the so-called “fossil fuels”, and over 5.5 billion zlotys were spent on thermomodernization programmes – enumerated Morawiecki, trying to answer the question about the government’s fight with smog.
The head of government also boasted of spending around 7.5 billion PLN on programmes related to ensuring clean air. He added in passing that many taxpayers took advantage of the thermomodernisation relief (also 7.5 billion zlotys).
**Electricity subsidies**
Next year, the Polish government will allocate at least PLN 1.5 billion for electricity subsidies. As Morawiecki stressed, the budget calculations take into account an increase in spending for this purpose at the level of PLN 3 to 5 billion.
Under the new regulations, more energy consumers will be covered by the “sensitive” category. In practice, this is supposed to provide them with less severe electricity bills. The draft also provides for a ban on withholding energy supplies for this group of recipients.
**VAT revenue**
The head of government also did not avoid questions about VAT revenues. As he announced, in 2021 VAT revenues should exceed PLN 210 billion. The Prime Minister also added that the “biggest pro-worker revolution in taxes” in the form of the Polish Deal is currently being implemented.
Not the worst idea
VATeusz is onto us once again!!
And whats considered luxury?
If you put an extra tax on luxury items only the rich will be able afford them and you end up with even larger differences in living standards. Most people can afford a luxury item every now and then, but with an extra tax they might not.
Prime Minister of Poland is a useless stooge.
PiS consider everyone that isn’t living on welfare to live in luxury so it will be another tax that will hit me and the really wealthy will heave a way to avoid it.