Tax compliance

Foreign entities starting a business in Poland do not have to opt for setting up a local company. After all, running a business in Poland may take on different forms: you can set up a branch, hire local employees or merely partly transfer some processes (e.g., establish a warehouse or a design office). Sometimes foreign entrepreneurs decide to enter into close cooperation with an independent entrepreneur operating in Poland.

The information published by Poland's Ministry of Finance shows that the number of tax and customs controls is successively increasing. In the first half of 2022 there have been almost two thousand of such controls – it is almost 300 more than in the same period of 2021.

In one of the episodes of our series “Courts on the side of taxable persons, i.e. an overview of true stories ” we wrote about the instrumental initiation of criminal and fiscal proceedings by tax authorities. Such proceedings are used by the tax office to prevent tax liabilities becoming time-barred. Today we will go to the root of the problem, i.e. we will tell you why the tax authorities must prevent statute of limitations in this way at all. Here are a few words about delaying tax cases.

The job of a tax advisor is to keep tax issues from overwhelming a business. Therefore, hand in hand with our Client, we struggle to come up with such schemes of company’s functioning which would earn the name “business first”.