This means that you earn up to 10 thousand. PLN annually will be exempt from capital gains taxand above this amount they will be taxed at a rate of 20%. Currently Belka tax is 19 percent
Belka’s tax-free amount is to be included earnings from interest on deposits and bank accounts, as well as from the stock exchangeas well as dividends and interest / bond discounts.
The interlocutors PAP Biznes establish that neither the amount of the free amount – 10 thousand. PLN, nor the tax increase of 1 percentage point. I’m not 100 percent yet. Certainly. These hypotheses will be further analyzed and calculated. They add that the solution is to be neutral for the state budget, meaning the losses resulting from the tax-free amount would have to be offset by a 1 percentage point increase in the tax rate, up to 20 percent.
In addition, for more than 90 percent of taxpayers who pay capital gains taxes, the proposed solutions will be beneficial. The change will be neutral for those who achieve an annual profit of PLN 200,000. PLN and less favorable for those whose investment profits will exceed the level of 200 thousand PLN. PLN per year.
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Belka’s tax
According to PAP Biznes, the Ministry of Finance assumes that it will be necessary to have a long vacatio legis and give the banks time to adapt. The intention of the Ministry of Finance is that the regulations are adopted by the parliament of the current legislature, while their entry into force would probably be postponed to allow everyone to prepare.
In early October, Deputy Finance Minister Artur Soboń announced that the ministry was working to change the capital gains tax for small savers. The deputy minister also talked about it on Thursday on RMF FM. As he pointed out, the abolition of the capital gains tax cannot be expected.
According to the UCE Research and SYNO Poland survey, The elimination of the Belka tax, introduced by the government of Leszek Miller, takes more than 67%. Polish. According to the authors of the study, the suspension of the levy could encourage Poles to save in times of rising inflation. They also recall that the tax had to be “temporary”.