Hundreds of thousands of companies in Poland are no longer VAT taxpayers

• From January 2017 to June 2023, 683,130 entities were removed from the VAT register in Poland.
• The number of active VAT taxpayers has been decreasing since 2017, with 320,390 entrepreneurs losing their VAT status between 2017 and 2019.
• In 2020, over 120,000 firms lost their VAT status, and in the following year, almost 84,000 more were removed.
• In the first half of 2023, an additional 51,742 entities were removed from the VAT register.
• The Supreme Administrative Court ruled that removing a taxpayer from the VAT register is a technical procedure that does not require a formal tax proceeding or notification to the taxpayer.
• The tax office only needs to prove that there were grounds for removing the taxpayer if the matter goes to administrative court.

Source: podatki.gazetaprawna.pl

Note that this post was (partially) written with the help of AI. It is always useful to review the original source material, and where needed to obtain (local) advice from a specialist.

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