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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…
Position of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers on the advertising tax
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…
“Lockdown Loss Meter” hanged in Warsaw. What amount does it show?
On the façade of the Warsaw-based pub “Świetlica Wolności” (The Freedom Lounge), several screens making up the Lockdown Loss Meter were hanged. In total, since March 2020, the Polish economy has already lost over PLN 30 billion as a result of the lockdown…
Statement of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers on the media tax
The Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers has for years been critical of all sectoral taxes. The proposed media tax is no exception from that rule, and therefore Union strongly opposes its introduction…