As many as three-quarters of respondents are against extending the reprographic fee to laptops, desktop computers, tablets, TV sets and smartphones. Works on such a project are ongoing at the Polish Ministry of Culture. The survey also shows that almost 9 out of 10 Poles consider this fee an additional tax, and more than half of all respondents believe that the state in times of a pandemic should be reducing taxes on electronic appliances…

In 2020, the rate of investment within the Polish economy amounted to 17.1%, compared to 18.5% in 2019. This comes as a result of not only the pandemic, but also of the diminishing attractiveness of investing in Poland – a recent ongoing trend. The Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers and the Warsaw Enterprise Institute have published a comprehensive programme of reforms that will reverse this trend and subsequently lead to faster national income growth…

The Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers took part in consultations organised by the Ministry of Development, Labour and Technology. The consultations concerned proposed changes to legal provisions in force which would improve the regulatory environment for companies…

Organisations of employees and employers, members of the Social Dialogue Council, are calling for the remaining sectors of the economy that remain in the state of lockdown to be opened. At the same time, we call for the implementation of sanitary restrictions adequate to the nature of individual industries. Employees and employers alike are willing to follow the sanitary regime worked out in past months…

Marcin Nowacki, President of the European Enterprise Alliance and Vice-President of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers, and Tomasz Wróblewski, President of the Warsaw Enterprise Institute, are members of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), an EU advisory body which represents employers’ and employees’ organisations in the EU lawmaking process. We present a summary of their activities in January 2021…

The Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers is critical of the proposal to introduce the advertising tax and calls for further works on the project to be abandoned. Our motivation is two-fold and consists of the following key factors: we are against sectoral taxes as well as oppose the introduction of any additional burdens during an epidemic or over the course of economic recovery. Meanwhile, the proposed tax would be another new fiscal obligation for companies, introduced in a relatively short time, in spite of the first economic recession in Poland in thirty years…