Month: February 2020

The issue of tax rate is of secondary importance. If general conditions are met and the expense was related to taxable business, the buyer of the good or service may deduct VAT. This is confirmed by the latest interpretation of the director of the National Treasury Information. However, the case law shows the opposite conclusion. An in-depth commentary by Małgorzata Militz, an expert on VAT, can be found in the article at  Prawo.pl.

The article is available at the following link: https://www.prawo.pl/podatki/bledna-zanizona-zawyzona-stawka-na-fakturze-a-prawo-do,497911.html 

The prestigious STEP Europe 2020 conference will be held in Vienna on 20-21 February, at which Tomasz Krzywanski, GWW's lawyer from the Private Client team will be the speaker. Tomasz will take part in discussion related to regulations on reporting tax schemes, identification of the real beneficiary and the impact of these regulations on lawyers’ secrecy. He will present Polish experiences in implementing EU regulations and talk about problems related to their application.

Aldona Leszczyńska Mikulska, a member of the Private Client team, will also participate in the conference.

STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) is the largest international organization of specialists in the field of property planning, taxes and inheritance matters.

Agenda of the event: https://www.step.org/sites/default/files/Europe_Vienna_Agenda_2020_140220.pdf 

On 6-7 March, the 5^th Toruń Review of Tax Decisions will be held at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. The conference will focus on the analysis of the most important and most representative court and tribunal rulings regarding tax issues issued in 2019.

To ensure a multilateral analysis of the state of the case law, among speakers we will host judges, tax advisors, attorneys-at-law, as well as academics. Among the invited experts, there is a tax advisor and partner of GWW Andrzej Ladziński, who will present the following topics:

• GAAR and security opinions – refusal to issue a security opinion
• Tax capital group – an agreement on establishing a tax capital group in the context of Article 199a of the Tax Code

During the tax breakfast (7 March), organized as part of the conference, Andrzej Ladziński and Alicja Sarna will lead a discussion on tax criminal proceedings in the context of the statutes of limitation.

In the current issue of the nationwide magazine of the Chamber of Architects of the Republic of Poland “Zawód: Architekt”, an article was published about the conference organized by the Lower Silesian Chamber of Architects of the Republic of Poland, which focused on key issues of the investment process. The conference created an opportunity to develop a uniform practice where there are doubts at the stage of applying legal regulations. A postulate regarding publication by the Lower Silesian Chamber of Architects of the Republic of Poland of information on the interpretation of regulations was adopted as one of the conference outcomes.

The article was drawn up by Joanna Sebzda-Załuska, attorney-at-law and managing partner at GWW Legal, who spoke at the conference as an expert in the construction process.

The material is available at the link: http://www.zawod-architekt.pl/pokaz/wroclawska_konferencja__o_procesach_inwestycyjnych,478/ 

Photo: zawod-architekt.pl

The 3^rd Public Forum on Procurement for supplies and services will take place in Zakopane on 1-3 April 2020. Grzegorz Karwatowicz, GWW's of counsel, will have a lecture devoted to establishing conditions for participation by the contracting authority in terms of having required experience in the implementation of services financed from European Union funds.

More information on the 3^rd Public Procurement Forum: https://zakopane.przetargipubliczne.pl/dt_team/grzegorz-karwatowicz/

And on 25 February in Warsaw, we will have the opportunity to participate in the conference on Public Procurement in EU projects, during which Grzegorz Karwatowicz will be one of experts. More information and registration on: https://ue.przetargipubliczne.pl/ 

Last Saturday in Warsaw, children of our colleagues got to know every nook and cranny of their parents' office, spending time on… THE SEARCH FOR WINTER! Nearly 40 young participants could enjoy such attractions as slime playing, experiments, LEGO robotics, creating soaps, there were even carnival masks! Games, competitions and contests did not let them get bored, and the toddler's corner was never empty.