On Monday 21 October 2024, the Supreme Administrative Court [hereinafter: NSA] adopted a resolution by a panel of seven judges (ref. III FPS 1/24) concerning the right of the Head of the National Tax Administration [hereinafter: KAS] to impose penalties on banks and other institutions obliged to submit reports within the STIR system. The NSA…
Since May 2024 this year, the Director of the National Tax Information has issued several individual tax rulings changing the hitherto relatively uniform line of interpretation of the look-through approach (LTA) in withholding tax. The LTA consists of disregarding the formal recipients of payments or intermediaries, attributing the tax consequences of the payment to the…
The local minimum income tax payable in 2025 will be calculated for the first time on the basis of the tax results achieved in 2024, and although there is still some time left before this deadline, taxpayers are already checking whether they will be subject to tax on the basis of historical data. One of…
Transfer pricing is essential for both businesses and tax authorities, as it involves setting prices for transactions between related parties, where there may be a risk of under-reporting income in one of the jurisdictions. For this reason, it’s important to ensure these prices are correctly determined, and then properly verified. In this post, we outline…
How to determine the place of supply of a service? The range of activities subject to VAT includes not only the sale of goods in exchange for consideration but also the supply of services in exchange for consideration within the country. While supplying services between Polish taxpayers usually does not pose many issues, expanding the…
The CJEU has once again clarified how to qualify new electromobility-related transactions on the basis of rather general and somewhat old tax rules. Again it was confirmed that the supply of electricity for the purposes of charging an electric vehicle at a charging point forming part of a public network of such points constitutes a…
This is one of the key tools tax authorities use to verify transactions between related parties. With the TPR form deadline approaching, here’s a reminder of the essentials of transfer pricing reporting: What transfer pricing information is, What data it includes, Who is required to submit it, Who is liable for failure to submit, What…
Automation of tax processes using artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly common among businesses as well as tax authorities. Tax authorities are benefiting from the technological revolution From the perspective of tax authorities, AI first and foremost allows for more efficient analysis of the vast amounts of data received from taxpayers. This allows for faster…
As a rule, the tax year for minimum tax is the calendar year. The legislation also allows taxpayers to amend this period depending on the decision expressed, inter alia, in the company’s articles of association. However, even in this situation, the tax year generally comprises twelve consecutive calendar months. In certain circumstances, this period may…
On October 4, 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered a judgment in the Voestalpine Giesserei Linz case (C-475/23), addressing the right to deduct VAT related to the acquisition of a machine provided free of charge to a subcontractor under a tooling agreement. The judgment pertains to a common practice, especially…