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Application window for financial support for electricity and gas bills incurred in 2023
01.09.2023
In September, NFOŚ will open a window to receive applications for financial support for electricity and gas bills incurred in 2023. The window will be a short one (14 days).
Importantly, support is now available based on a much wider range of PKD...
How to prepare for KSeF?
29.08.2023
The Friday edition of Rzeczpospolita featured a text by Sylwia Matuszek on how to prepare for the National E-Invoicing System (KSeF). Sylwia offers a brief primer into:
what is KSeF,
how to adjust your financial and accounting software,
what...
Cooperation with business in paid prisoner employment programs with outside contractors
29.08.2023
When entering into a contract, the prison warden and the outside contractor have relative freedom to agree terms on which inmates are to work. There is no law specifically imposing any terms on paid prisoner employment contracts based on mandatory work...
CESOP – tightening the VAT system through cross-border payment reporting
25.08.2023
1 January 2024 is the commencement date of an act of 14 April 2023 to amend the VAT Act and certain other legislation.
The new law imposes certain additional duties on banks and other financial institutions in connection with the reporting of cross-border...
End of epidemic emergency
16.08.2023
July 1 was when businesses should have started making or preparing for changes reflecting the end of the specific legal regime imposed during the epidemic. The changes were symbolically represented by abolition of the duty to wear face masks also in hospitals...
Does change of electricity vendor strip the firm of the right to energy price cap?
14.08.2023
Businesses are entitled to energy price cap in accordance with the law introducing extraordinary measures to limit electricity prices and support certain customers in 2023.
A change of electricity vendor does not strip business of the right to pay...
Barter contract and sponsoring
21.07.2023
There has been uncertainty if those liable to corporate income tax (CIT) may apply a tax relief to barter contracts made with sports clubs.
The relief is available in the form of a deduction from income for 50% of tax costs incurred to provide medical...
Heat waves and work: afternoon siesta is already enacted in Polish law
20.07.2023
In practice, neither employers nor employees want to use this opportunity.
The nationwide trade union organisation OPZZ has for years been trying to push legislation imposing a workplace temperature cap. OPZZ Vice President Sebastian Koćwin told \"Rzeczpospolita\"...
Does signing a record of acceptance of work mark a point in time of any relevance for VAT?
20.07.2023
We are engaged in IT implementation services. Our contracts require completion to be evidenced by a record (certificate) of acceptance. We consider our work to be completed when the client signs the record. Can we consider the signing of the record to...
Ein weiterer Schritt zur Abschaffung des Erbnießbrauchs
12.07.2023
Was ist ein Erbnießbrauch?
Der Erbnießbrauch ist ein Recht, das die Nutzung eines Grundstücks, das sich im Eigentum des Staates oder einer Gebietskörperschaft (z. B. einer Gemeinde) befindet, für einen bestimmten Zeitraum, in der Regel 99 Jahre,...