PO government forcing Polish companies abroad

GW has reported a conference of Polish private invrestors who are increasingly fed up with government retrictions which are forcing more and more Polish companies to transfer operations abroad. Doing buiness in Poland is so difficult owing to oppressive taxation and bad legal regulations, so even the cost and effort of moving abroad is worth it.

None of this is new. Their predecessors did diddlysquat about it, and at least it's now being talked about

I own a Polish company and in some aspects (not in all aspects) it makes sense to move elsewhere and continue to offer services and products in Poland. Let's see how things develop over the next few months. This is not news. I am happy to see people talking about it. Maybe they will do something.

The conference was new and your favourite leftist-liberal rag "Gazeta Wybiórcza" felt it was newsworthy.
At any rate, Polish businessmen blame the current government which has been in power 8 years (too long).

No they don't. The business community favour the current government and always have.

I agree with what jon357 said. As a business owner I am nervous about PiS being in charge. However, much remains to be seen over the next few months.

No they don't or maybe the foreign ones who have bad command of Polish language but compensate with more cash in hand, they couldn't afford running their business in their own country so they have no comparison. There is an interesting person called Kamil Cebulski commonly known as "youngest Polish millionaire". I could paste some links where he explains how business friendly PO is but they are in Polish. He opens business schools but mainly abroad for obvious reasons and he moved his main office to the UK as well.

The corruption, the senseless amendments to laws and directives to the tax office and the sheer weirdness is something that all of who ran a business during those years remember.

jon357, I heard stories, but I only started my business here in 2012 so all I know is based on word of mouth.


And you know all of them? Here is one example that doesn't fit your very specific stereotype. Me. I speak Polish and I am nervous about PiS being in charge. With the exception of one of the people that I do business with in Poland, nobody is comfortable about PiS being in charge, and every one of them is Polish. The single exception is a friend of a key figure in PiS.

Fluently? What is your native language?

The truth is that none of those two parties did anything to make Poland more business friendly country.

Nine days of "tinky winky" being the top, and almost the only, story about Poland in all of the foreign press from Iceland to Vanatu was too much for me. I wanted to cry.

Yes forcing companies and citizens abroad by thier policy , at the same time foreign companies making fortunes on Poles thanks to corruption.

Wulkan, yes, fluent but not native. And my native language is: not Polish.

I agree that neither party did anything to make Poland more business friendly - not that I am aware of anyway.