Poland launches probe into VAT fraud
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
24.07.2018 15:06
A special commission on Tuesday started a parliamentary probe into suspected cases of VAT and excise tax fraud under Poland’s previous government.
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The inquiry is led by Marcin Horała, an MP for Poland’s ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party.
Horała has previously said that a probe was needed to check former finance ministry officials and others who oversaw the VAT collection system under the Civic Platform-led government, which governed Poland from 2007 to 2015.
A deputy finance minister was quoted as saying last year that value-added tax (VAT) fraud under the Civic Platform government was “the biggest disease” in the country since the fall of communism in 1989.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who was previously finance minister, said last year that government efforts to clamp down on tax fraud and evasion were vital to Poland's future.
Horała said on Tuesday that the next meeting of the investigative commission was planned for the second half of August.
(pk)
Source: PAP