MDDP

From 1 July 2018, Poland became one special economic zone (SEZ) with extensive tax exemptions available. Since the early 90s, taxpayers have been able to benefit from public aid in the form of the income tax exemption that applies to profits earned in SEZs. Most of the exemptions resulted from qualifying expenses relating to new investments and increases in employment, but only within very specified locations.

On July 1 2018, the Polish VAT Act of 11/03 2004 is to be amended by a new regulation introducing a voluntary split payment as a method of payment of purchase invoices – from the perspective of taxpayers – and as a new tool to combat VAT fraud – from the perspective of tax authorities. However, from the perspective of VAT taxpayers the new mechanism may bring more radical changes than expected in some areas.

New regulations in the field of transfer pricing documentation came into force in Poland on January 1 2018.