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31 December 2019 Poland publishes decree deferring certain provisions of new withholding tax reform On 30 December 2019, a decree further deferring the application of the key amendment to the new withholding tax (WHT) regime was published in the Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland. Under the decree, the default obligation to collect WHT at the statutory rates of 19% or 20%, regardless of relief at source available under a tax treaty or domestic exemption based on the European Union (EU) directives (unless special procedures are followed), has been further deferred until the end of June 2020.
It is important to note that other stringent elements of the reform were not subject to deferral and have already been effective as of 1 January 2019. That is, the Polish tax remitter is now obliged to exercise due diligence to determine if the payment recipient is eligible to benefit from relief at source. The new, more rigid definition of the beneficial owner is also already in force. The additional time resulting from the postponement to collect WHT at the statutory rates of 19% and 20% is a good opportunity for taxpayers and tax remitters, making cross-border payments, to analyze the impact of the new WHT regime and to secure their tax positions. 1. See EY Global Tax Alert, Poland’s Ministry of Finance publishes decree deferring certain provisions of its new withholding tax reform, dated 11 December 2018. 2. See EY Global Tax Alert, Poland defers key impact of withholding tax reform, dated 2 July 2019. EY Doradztwo Podatkowe Krupa sp.k., Warsaw
EY Doradztwo Podatkowe Krupa sp.k., Wroclaw
Ernst & Young LLP (United States), Polish Tax Desk, New York
Document ID: 2019-6666 |