Polish retail tax comes under Brussels scrutiny

EUbusiness.com ^ | 20 September 2016, 23:44 CET

[Olog-hai]

The EU Commission opened an in-depth probe into a Polish tax on the retail sector Tuesday, concerned that the progressive rates based on turnover give companies with low turnover an unfair advantage.

The European Commission’s injunction requires Poland to suspend the application of the tax until the Commission has concluded its assessment.

This follows a decision the Commission took in July this year on a progressive turnover-based tax on the retail sector in Hungary, which the Commission found to be in breach of EU state aid rules, because it granted a selective advantage to companies with low turnover over their competitors. …

[Fungi]

Unelected elites telling everyone how to live. Tyranny, pure and simple. Poland, tell the EU to go F themselves and leave the EU, a “union” that was never intended to be a “union,” but a means of control and taxation.

[Rurudyne]

While I don’t support ANY form of “progressive” tax ... here’s hoping the Poles tell The EU to get bent.

[Trump20162020]

You know, Poland joined the EU of its own free will in 2004, long after everyone should have known how crappy it was, so to me, they have no excuse, especially when their people love the EU more than any other EU nation.

[norwaypinesavage]

And why does giving a tax break to companies that don’t sell much of anything justify even a blink.