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delphiandomine   
16 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

Taxing food hits the poor most because its a much bigger part of their spending (VAT is another disgrace, why don't they simply increase it) .

Indeed. But PiS have consistently shown since the election that they couldn't care less about the poor. Look at Polonius on here - all of the policies that are hurting the poor and he hasn't uttered a single word about them. Even the bank tax is going to hurt PKO the most - who in turn will pass the costs to their clients, who tend to be the poorer in society because of the extensive reach of the PKO network vs other banks.

Still, PiS lovers couldn't care less. It's TKM, after all.
delphiandomine   
16 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

...still wondering when someone is going to explain how a blanket 2% tax on retailers is going to help small Polish businesses and consumers.
delphiandomine   
16 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

And international markets and comemrce do not care about normal, ordinary people

Neither do PiS, given that they want to destroy small Polish retailers and hand a nice boost to large international ones.
delphiandomine   
16 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

So the world is talking and that will cost us several billion this year alone.

Then do the right thing and stop destroying our democracy and economy for the sake of Kaczyński's thirst for undisputed power.

Pretty simple, really.
delphiandomine   
16 Jan 2016
Law / Poland's Zloty 43% undervalued [30]

Just the GBP has weakened slightly. It always has been a volatile currency against others.

Poland is not a place for foreign investors, that is the message. Poles will just have to accept they are going to get poorer.

I feel significantly poorer these days at these exchange rates.
delphiandomine   
16 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

Maybe a ban on undercutting prices on basic foodstuffs so they would cost as much at Tesco as in the corenr shop.

You've already had it explained to you why imposing price controls never works. If you impose such a ban, then Tesco will make far higher profits on basic foodstuffs which they will use to subsidise other offers - as Tesco will be paying less for the basic foodstuffs than the corner shop as they can negotiate far better terms and conditions. End result is the same - the local shop loses.

The true patriot will step back, size up the situation and see what can be done to improve things.

The true patriot would encourage Polish business through favourable tax regimes for new businesses, setting up new Special Economic Zones, subsidising rental costs for new small/specialist retailers, providing work experience programmes in Polish schools and much more. They wouldn't tax Polish retail businesses with an extra 2% tax. Furthermore, 2% tax means a price rise of 2%. That means less money to spend in Polish businesses.

How many Polish businesses have relocated abroad compared to the foreign ones exploiting Poland?

Plenty of them. The latest one is the owner of the 'reserved' chain, which has moved to Luxembourg.
delphiandomine   
16 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

Why don't you describe how and why foreign banks and retail chains have not been paying their fair share of taxes to the Polish state.

What is a "fair share", given that Polish companies also have relocated their headquarters abroad to benefit from more favourable tax regimes?

Anyway, Polonius, can you explain to us as a PiS supporter why PiS intend to tax Polish businesses and favour large foreign ones that are able to negotiate with suppliers/relocate abroad?
delphiandomine   
16 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

Why don't you describe to us how PO gave foreign companies "massive tax breaks", and quantify it by how PiS has stopped it?

This tax is a way to get money out of people's pockets and into the government's pocket. The large retailers will simply squeeze the 2% tax out of suppliers, while the tax will also go a long way to destroying small Polish businesses as they will be forced to pass on the 2% rise.

Basic economics seems to be a mystery to PiS supporters.
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Just goes to show the country is riddled with ex-PZPR people

Indeed. One can find them at the very heart of the PiS government.

These demonstrations next Saturday are against the new law introduced by PiS that will allow unlimited spying on residents of Poland without judicial oversight.
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

Latest information from KOD...

List of KOD demonstrations on 23.10. Further information to come.

1. BIA£YSTOK - 12:00, Rynek Kościuszki, "Białystok za Demokracją bez Inwigilacji"
2. BYDGOSZCZ
3. ELBLĄG - 12:00, Pomnik Ofiar Grudnia 1970 - plac Solidarności, "Elbląg dla demokracji nie inwigilacji"
4. E£K - 12:00, Park Solidarności
5. GDAŃSK
6. JELENIA GÓRA
...

facebook.com/KomitetObronyDemokracji/
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

But nobody wanted a re-run of nomenklatura which we now see in the KOD camp.

You keep trying to associate KOD with the nomeklatura, but it's PiS that have appointed endless ex-PZPR functionaries to top positions.

Poles wanted and want a EU that's a voluntary federation of sovereign national homelands.

They knew what was on offer. The European Union at that point was 10 years old and the consequences of Maastricht were well known. More to the point, the European Constitution had already been drafted by the time Poland voted in the referendum.

Anyway, this is irrelevant. The point is that PiS plan to force Polish retailers to pay 2% tax, ensuring that many small Polish businesses will go out of business and allowing the large foreign-owned chains to dominate the Polish retail market.
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

KOD have nothing to do with a flawed budget that involves borrowing a lot of cash to pay for unfunded socialist promises.

The ratings agencies aren't stupid. They can see that PiS have no idea how to fund these promises, and the predictions are that Poland will break the 3% debt barrier this year. That means that Poland is fiscally reckless, and as a result, cannot be trusted.
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

Tax will be official next week they said. They had ten days which makes it a thursday or friday I believe.

Friday will be most likely, because they can bury the bad news at the weekend.
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

It would be an import tax and ruled illegal very quickly.

At the end of the day, this is just yet another tax introduced by PiS to harm small Polish family-run businesses while allowing big businesses to increase their profits further. For a so-called "patriotic" party, they seem hell bent on destroying small business in Poland while promoting large ones.
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

Indeed. It's pretty obvious from the way that they're now talking about 500zł per child from May that there's simply no money in the budget to pay for the plans, and the sudden change from 2% tax on large retailers to a blanket 2% tax shows that they know it as well.

If the złoty keeps falling, it will be nearly impossible to impose the tax on the retailers as the rise in prices will be far too much for the average Pole to stomach easily.

One thing - going from positive to negative is a pretty big jump for an established economy. Normally it goes to neutral first - which shows that the markets expect huge trouble financially here.
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

Just apply basic economic ideas and voila! PiS's laws boomerang against the Polish public (especially hard against the PiS core voters).

Indeed. I know what it's like in my local meat shop - these elderly women know the price of things, and if prices go up by 2% overnight, they're not going to be happy bunnies, especially when the owner of the meat shop tells them that it's a disgrace because of the government applying the extra tax.

Notice how Polonius hasn't once expressed any concern that a 2% tax is going to hit the poorest in society the most?
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

In today's e-era there are ways to slap a tax on the goods the moment they enter Polish territory even if delivered by drone or pigeon post.

There are ways, of course. But those ways are not legal under EU law and would almost certainly result in financial sanctions towards Poland to compensate EU businesses affected by the tax. Poland would end up losing considerably more than she gained from such a move. More to the point, to collect such a tax, you have to control the borders. That means a return to the bad old pre-2004 days when waiting 12+ hours on the border was common for truck drivers.

For a vigilant and thoroughly pro-Polish government nothing is impossible.

Nothing is impossible, but it certainly involves leaving the EU and seeing Polish goods taxed with an equal tax on import.

All the expat renegades are constantly thinkling up ways to circumvent the law and outfox the Polish state.

And you believe that Polish online retailers aren't immediately thinking about moving their distribution centres abroad?

Companies such as komputronik.pl will almost certainly dispatch from CZ and not PL.
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

Pretty sure there's no way to do that in the EU and leaving the EU would cause major economic problems for the country as it's a net gainer from membership.

Unlike the British, I can't imagine there would be much motivation to continue allowing Polish workers freedom of movement/labour in the EU. That means that there would be a huge influx of Poles back into Poland - into an economy that's already adjusted to live without them. Living standards would inevitably tumble.

Not to mention that any tax would likely find itself copied by the EU towards Poland. So Polonius would find that Polish exports are suddenly uncompetitive when compared to other non-EU exports to the EU, ensuring that the economy suffers further.
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

....horrible unintended consequences for the oligarchs and other bloodsukcers. Boo-hoo, sob, sob, poor oligarchs, poor bankers, poo nomenklaturists......

I like the way that you immediately assume that anyone running an internet shop is immediately a bloodsucking oligarch. The reality is that most of them are small business people operating with wafer-thin margins. Still, says a lot about your hatred towards private business.

Weren't you supposed to be about encouraging Polish entrepreneurship, not against it?

Horrible intended consequences for the Polish shoppers many of whom are already balancing a very tight budget.

Indeed. Notice how none of the PiS supporters so far have admitted to the fact that this is just another tax rise?

Slap a delivery tax on all foreign e-outfits when they deliverr to clietns in Poland. That'sll fix their clock!

You cannot impose a tax on foreign retailers and not domestic ones. Next.

Well, you can, but you'll have to leave the EU and trade on unfavourable terms with the EU when you do.

A good government are one that protect their coutnry's market first and foremost and taxes foreign interlopers out of existence!

Given that PiS intend on destroying the Polish market and taxing Polish businesses, is that therefore an admission that PiS is a bad government?
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

Somebody needs to be thinking about how to get around policies in order to not create horrible unintended consequences.

The thing with PiS is that they seem absolutely unwilling to even listen to any discussion on the matter. It's obvious that a 2% tax on online shops will cause both Polish and non-Polish retailers to move their base out of Poland while still selling on the Polish market. Courier companies will set up special deals so that transport from border areas is charged at the same price as if the package is sent from within Poland, and the end result will be the destruction of Poland-based e-retailers.
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
Food / I thought Polish beer couldn't compete, but I was wrong [20]

... brain cannot compute.

There's easily a 100 Polish beers much better than Kozel.

Why anyone would drink (if given the choice) SABMiller produced rubbish when Poland has so many decent local breweries producing decent stuff is entirely beyond me.
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they simply gave up and shifted their operations outside of Poland and told their Polish customers that now all business would be done with their new company in Slovakia, meaning as well as the loss of sales in shops, PISed-up economics would drive wholesaling out of Poland!

Who would bother selling directly to Poles if they were forced to charge the same prices to everyone? It's pretty obvious our neighbours would be over the moon at all the new warehouses created (and tax paid to them), while the Polish economy would immediately collapse as Polish suppliers would simply stop producing as it wouldn't make sense anymore. Almost every pure retail operation would shut down their Polish operations and move it all to CZ/SK/LT while knowing that the goods can be sent to Poland free of controls.

In fact, I seem to recall that one reason for the introduction of martial law was that producers did exactly that. Farmers were keeping considerable amounts of produce off the market because it simply didn't make any sense to sell at the price mandated by the State - they could barter their goods and get the real value, whereas the State was only offering some fictional amount that didn't cover the real costs of farming. One aspect of martial law that isn't often spoken about was the way that many industries became "military" and hence people were obliged to produce or face a court martial.
delphiandomine   
15 Jan 2016
News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]

Despite all the rhetoric from PiS about only taxing large foreign owned supermarkets, the reality is becoming clear. PiS intend to apply a 2% tax to all retail businesses in Poland.

natemat.pl/168217,dlaczego-sklepy-internetowe-zaplaca-podatek-obrotowy-niezlomni-z-pis-ulegli-lobbingowi-wielkich-marketow

Within a few weeks, lobbyists have changed the bill and the tax for large-commerce has now become a tax for all shops: small, large and websites.

We can look forward to the destruction of the Polish online retailing sector as e-commerce companies move to the Czech Republic/Slovakia/Germany/Lithuania, while smaller shops will be devastated by having to add an extra 2% to their prices while online competitors based outside of Poland will be able to sell without the tax applied.

As we said all along, PiS will raise taxes and hurt the poorest in society that often are unable to access online shops due to a lack of internet connectivity. They will now be forced to pay 2% extra in small local shops, while those retailers will also suffer against Polish-owned but foreign-based online competition.

This law will also do nothing to 'protect' small shops, and instead guarantees that they will almost certainly lose considerable business to larger supermarkets. Paweł that owns a small corner shop is not able to negotiate prices with suppliers, but Piotr that works for the large foreign supermarket as a buyer is certainly able to squeeze suppliers further. Price increases will therefore be lower in larger supermarkets, which will help to increase sales at the expense of the small Polish businessman.

Still...

Do you remember Andrzej Duda in the presidential campaign? He went to the shop and thundered: "Polish entrepreneurship should be protected and supported by the fact that the tax burden will be borne by the big supermarket chains, which today in relation to its turnover pay peanuts in taxes".

What Duda actually meant is that Polish business will be destroyed by PiS imposing extra taxes.
delphiandomine   
14 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

"Holier-than-thou" PO broke the law by ignoring those binding rulings for fear that would detract from their all-out election-campaign effort.

They didn't ignore any rulings. They simply didn't implement the laws which the TK ruled to be unconstitutional, which is perfectly valid in Polish law.

Within 6 months, during which PiS intend to enact their main legislative projects

No, Polonius. PiS said 100 days - and yet none of the main promises have been kept.

The Petrus, POs and KODs can go f*** themselves!

Beautiful. It shows the real attitude behind PiS supporters - vulgar, abusive and entirely PiSed up.
delphiandomine   
14 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

The murmurings are that the farmers are already preparing to do battle with PiS should the CAP funds be threatened in any way by PiS.

Anyway, latest news : 23.01 will see nationwide protests, and it is planned that they will take place in not only big cities, but also smaller ones. I approve.
delphiandomine   
13 Jan 2016
News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]

First information : 23.01 will see nationwide demonstrations.

Not confirmed as to why, but it's likely to do with the new PiS police law that will allow the police (so, the government) unlimited power to spy on Poles without any judicial oversight.