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The Industry Shield, also known as Shield 6.0, has finally been signed. The vast majority of the provisions of the Act of 9 December 2020 amending the Act on special solutions related to preventing, counteracting and combating COVID-19, other infectious diseases and crisis situations caused by them, and certain other acts (Journal of Laws, item 2255) entered into force on Wednesday, December 16, 2020. However, many regulations on important forms of support will not come into force until the end of December.

Last week, the Sejm adopted a whole range of amendments of tax regulations. Apart from the fact that CIT will be levied from limited partnerships and the Estonian CIT will be introduced, taxpayers should also note the provision that is going to enter into force on 1 January 2021 and require companies to prepare the information about their tax strategy for the fiscal year and publish it to make it available to the public. However, this obligation will only apply to the largest taxpayers and tax capital groups.

We informed you in the first week of September that information on the work on the draft of major changes in the PIT and CIT taxes was published on the Council of Ministers’ website. Yesterday the draft saw the light of day and, unfortunately, it confirmed major concerns associated with it. The proposed amendments involve a number of matters that have been previously signalled, including, most notably, the corporate income tax (CIT) being imposed on limited partnerships. The changes are to enter into force as of the beginning of 2021.

The effects of the COVID-19 epidemic are noticeable in all economic sectors across the country. Since the beginning of the epidemic, the government has been working on solutions to help entrepreneurs save jobs.

What an unexpected twist – the Polish Government proposes to postpone the deadline for the fulfilment of transfer pricing obligations. These changes are included in the next anti-crisis draft act on subsidizing interest rates on bank loans granted to ensure financial liquidity of businesses affected by COVID-19 and amendments to some related acts (hereinafter: Shield 4.0), published on 28 May on the website of the Government Legislation Centre. Pursuant to the proposed changes, taxpayers will be given three additional months to meet the reporting obligations concerning transfer pricing. Below we discuss the scope of these changes.

In accordance with the European Commission’s Communication on EU strategy and action plan for customs risk management, on 15 March 2021 the European Union is launching a new EU customs pre-arrival security and safety programme, the so-called ICS2 (ImportControlSystem2). The programme will be launched to strengthen the protection of the internal market and EU citizens. ICS2 will replace the ICS programme.

Zmniejszone przychody, zwiększone koszty, przestoje w produkcji, problemy z dostawami materiałów i surowców, osłabiona efektywność, niewypłacalność – to tylko niektóre z licznych negatywnych skutków, z którymi mierzą się przedsiębiorcy w obecnej sytuacji spowodowanej pandemią koronawirusa SARS-CoV-2. Kryzys gospodarczy wywołany wprowadzeniem w Polsce oraz w wielu innych krajach stanu zagrożenia epidemiologicznego oraz stanu epidemii związanego z rozprzestrzenianiem się koronawirusa stanowi zagrożenie również w kontekście wywiązywania się z obowiązków dokumentacyjnych i sprawozdawczych w zakresie cen transferowych. W niniejszym wpisie przedstawimy kluczowe ryzyka i wyzwania stojące przed podmiotami powiązanymi w zakresie cen transferowych w obliczu wirusa COVID-19.

On 26 March on the website of Polish Sejm a draft act amending the act on special arrangements related to preventing, counteracting and combating COVID-19, other infectious diseases, and resulting states of emergency, and certain other acts was published. The draft act will be considered by the Sejm this week.

From 1 April 2020, large enterprises will be obliged to submit a new SAF-T (in Polish: JPK_VAT) that is going to replace the VAT return and the previous SAF-T. Other entities, i.e. small and medium-sized enterprises and micro-entrepreneurs will have to follow suit from 1 July 2020; however, they have the right to apply this new solution already from April this year. They must keep it in mind, though, that once they submit a JPK_VAT, they cannot return to the old regime.