Friday, April 30, 2021

Prime Minister Morawiecki for L'Opinion: We need a fair tax system


 More and more people are aware of the need to build a new global fiscal order, writes Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in the French daily "L'Opinion" in the Friday edition. He points out that the pandemic of indebtedness has sparked a debate about "international taxes, about whether corporations should pay taxes where they generate income."

"We are starting a debate about international taxes, about whether corporations should pay taxes where they generate income..."
"We are also asking whether it is fair that it is possible not to pay taxes in some EU countries. These topics have so far not been taken seriously. The pandemic of indebtedness in Western Europe has changed the approach to this subject,"  writes Prime Minister Morawiecki.

"The political elite of the Republic of Poland (18th century) abandoned reforms when there was time. The blockade of Polish tax reforms was considered to be of strategic importance in the field of European policy at the Prussian and Russian courts. The rulers of these countries expressed this in the Potsdam Treaty, where the weakness of Polish governments was recognized as a guarantee of the interests of our future partitioners. Today, the rebuilding of tax revenues is also a way to regain Polish subjectivity permanently," stresses the Prime Minister.