Law / Foreign retirees taxed in Poland? [25]

Nierozumiem makes a good point, there are many beautiful places where anyone, foreigner, or not, are welcome with open arms, anyone willing to move there for as long as they wish without paying tax penalty. As I gather Poland has much more appeal for Polish people who want to return to their roots, family, etc than for anyone else, so when I first got interested in the idea I was expecting the Polish Gov to actually offer some incentives of sort to returning Poles and to other people who'd like to retire in Poland, but it seems the opposite.

I was informed by Treasury Ministry (Wydzial Skarbu Panstwa) representative that any SS from USA, pensions, Roth, etc. once transfered to Poland as such are treaded as any other kind of income, exactly as many of you said. I was also told that there are 2 tax brackets in place.. funds up to 85,000 PLZ (after exchange rate) are taxed at 18% and 85,001PLZ + is taxed at 32%. Anything below 3,000PLZ per year is free from taxes. Go figure.

Law / Foreign retirees taxed in Poland? [25]

To avoid any misunderstandings, no argument with being taxed in US. In my situation all income was generated, allocated and reported to IRS. But I never worked in Poland, had no business of any kind with or in Poland and I wouldn't plan to engage in any industrious activities on my retirement in Poland... only would like to go fishing. A different scenario is when a person working (worked) in Poland and abroad actively generating income all over needs to report in various places and be taxed here and there. From what I read and I may be wrong, the Polish - American treaty on double taxation speaks to working people and doesn't address retirement, no?