In the Sejm, a citizen's draft pension bill without tax was signed under 140,000 Poles. The project proposed the elimination of personal income tax and the elimination of the contribution to health insurance for pensioners.
If the bill came into force, pensioners and pensioners, for example, instead of 854 PLN They'd get round 1,000 PLN, instead of 2,065 PLN – 2,500 PLN, or pensions would increase by close 20%, and pensioners would be able to have funds a few hundred zlotys higher each month.
On the other hand, to the project changes would cost you approx. 26,000,000,000 PLN, means more than a year of program "500+". Such costs would affect all taxpayers. This would consist of loss of income tax revenue and expenditure on compensation for lost income from the National Health Fund and local government units.
According to the Bureau of Sejm Analysis, the idea of tax-free pensions is not the right way to improve the financial situation of pensioners and pensioners.
The proposed changes would be more favourable for pensioners and pensioners receiving higher pensions, leading to a fragmentation of the incomes of pensioners receiving the lowest benefits, and this could ultimately create a number of public tensions.
In addition, the changes may prove incompatible with the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, as they would favour pensioners and pensioners receiving pensions from the national pension scheme, at the expense of pensioners and pensioners who receive pensions from abroad as well as judges and prosecutors at rest.
Author: Paweł Boś, law student at Leon Kozminski Academy in Warsaw, marketing officer Russell Bedford