An extra bonus in December is enough, and the employee will have to return to the tax office everything that he will save earlier thanks to the so-called relief for the middle class from all previous months – according to “Dziennik Gazeta Prawna”, it results from the tax assumptions of the Polish Deal.
- The relief for the middle class is to eliminate the tax effects of the reform of the Polish Order for a large part of society, say the ruling
- Exceeding the salary limit by even PLN 1 is to deprive you of the right to this relief
- Experts warn: this mechanism will cease to pay for bonuses and rewards at the end of the year
- More such information can be found on the main page of Onet.pl
“It will happen that subordinates will refuse to accept raises and annual awards at the end of the yearif only not to exceed the statutory salary limit and not having to return the entire tax relief on the annual tax return “- comments Daniel Więckowski, tax advisor and partner at LTCA in an interview with” DGP “.
A relief for the middle class. Who can gain?
According to the newspaper, a new preference was designed for people earning monthly from PLN 5,701 to PLN 11,141, i.e. from PLN 68,412 to PLN 133,692 per year. However, it is enough to exceed this limit by even one zloty, and the relief is gone. Then a problem will arise because, in principle, employers will have to take into account the preference already during the year when calculating monthly PIT advances on wages.
If the employee’s annual income is exceeded by, for example, PLN 1 (for example, PLN 133,693), the employee will have to pay extra PIT by submitting an annual tax return
– confirms Dr. Jowita Pustuł, tax advisor and attorney-at-law in J. Pustuł and Associates Tax and legal advice to the daily. When asked whether in such a situation the tax office will also be able to demand late payment interest on the underestimated PIT advances during the year, she replies that in her opinion it was not, because the employer correctly calculated the amount of the monthly advance during the year.
According to the newspaper, in the opinion of the advisers, they will also have a lot of trouble employers who will have to constantly monitor the monthly salary of each employee. It will be burdensome especially when the subordinate’s remuneration changes every month, because each time the employee receives, for example, a sales bonus, the amount of which is variable.
But on right to a discount there may also be a one-time bonus, not necessarily a cash one. The new preference, although called a middle class relief, is actually a “worker relief”. This is because it will not be available to entrepreneurs or freelancers, either on the basis of a mandate contract or a specific specific task contract.
– we read in “DGP”.
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