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This year's edition of the Chambers Europe ranking brought us another distinction in the tax category. Each year, appearing in Chambers and Partners pleases us just as much, because it is the opinions of clients and the projects we implement together that influence our distinction.

GWW Tax managing partner Artur Cmoch received an individual award.

Clients about our strengths:

• "The team provides quick, efficient answers to questions and challenges in a dynamic tax environment."
• "GWW has a proactive and responsive team."
• "The leaders have wide knowledge and ability to provide immediate comment and advice."
• "The team has the ability to provide advice on various tax aspects of the projects being conducted regardless of the size and complexity of the engagement."
• "The GWW team has extensive knowledge in handling inspection activities backed by years of experience and practice. The team is also engaged in the ongoing monitoring of changes in tax regulations and gives immediate cooperation in preparing responses to those changes."

Clients about Artur:

• "Artur has the best identification of customer needs, is proactive, and provides comprehensive advice and support."

Congratulations to the entire GWW Tax Advisory team.

Develia S.A. has signed a preliminary sale-purchase agreement (PSPA) with an Adventum Group entity for Wola Retro, a prestigious office building located in the Daszyńskiego Roundabout area of Warsaw. The agreed price is approximately EUR 69.8 million. The transaction is scheduled to close by the end of April 2023.

The GWW team is responsible for providing ongoing support to Develia S.A. on tax issues related to the planned Wola Retro sale transaction. The project is being handled on GWW's side by Mariusz Tkaczyk and Artur Bubrowiecki.

For the second time, we are sharing with you selected projects on which we provided legal and tax advisory services throughout the year. A large part of our business is the ongoing service of our long-term clients. However, this time we are focusing on specific projects that we recall from 2022 particularly well. These include transactions, tax proceedings, relocations, or restructurings.

Find out what these matters are: https://newsletter.gww.pl/alert/Success-Stories-2022.pdf 

We would like to present country by country guide where you will find all the relevant info regarding creating corporate structures in all 26 jurisdictions! Here you can find it.

The guide is the collective work of experts from TELFA Corporate Practice group.

More information about TELFA: https://www.telfa.law/

This month, an amendment to the Companies Act became effective, which introduces into the Polish commercial law system the regulation of a special type of dependency relationship between a parent company and its subsidiaries. New institutions, such as a group of companies, the interest of a group of companies or the institution of a binding order, enter the legal market. Marcin Borkowski's article can be found on Lexplorers: https://lexplorers.pl/nowelizacja-kodeksu-spolek-handlowych/

The 17-member Jury of the Andrzej Woyciechowski Radio ZET Award granted 12 nominations in the 18th edition of the award event. The legal order of the proceedings was taken care of by Michal Sekowski, Secretary of the Jury.

Nominated journalists:

Karolina Baca-Pogorzelska (Wprost.pl);
Dariusz Faron and Szymon Jadczak (Wirtualna Polska);
Szymon Jadczak (Wirtualna Polska);
Szymon Jadczak and Mateusz Ratajczak (Wirtualna Polska);
Michal Kokot ("Gazeta Wyborcza"); Tomasz Krzyzak ("Rzeczpospolita");
Mateusz Lachowski (Polsat News);
Michal Przedlacki (TVN/TVN24);
Paweł Reszka ("Polityka");
Joanna Solska ("Polityka");
Andrzej Stankiewicz (Onet); and
Tomasz Stawiszyński ("Tygodnik Powszechny"). 

We congratulate the nominees and are already looking forward to the finals. The awards ceremony will be held on November 16, 2022. 

Information about the materials for which the nomination was received and details about the Award can be found on the Radio Zet website.

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The Environmental Protection Law of 27 April 2001 allows the authorities indicated therein to issue decisions on permissible noise levels to entities using the environment. For exceeding permissible noise emission levels, the legislator provides for severe fines. From the perspective of the above regulations, it is extremely important that the authorities authorised to do so reliably determine the actual level of emitted noise. However, this is not always the case. The matter was comprehensively addressed by Kacper Kudlek, attorney at GWW.

Please visit Lexplorers: https://lexplorers.pl/lokalizacja-punktu-pomiaru-halasu/.

The levy on foodstuffs – the so-called sugar levy – has already existed in the Polish legal system since January 2021 and has continuously raised controversy and practical problems since then. One such problem is the failure of the law to specify how it should be verified whether the purchaser of the goods conducts only retail/wholesale sales or sales with both characteristics. Establishing this fact is important, as it determines who will be obliged to pay the fee. Recently, provincial administrative courts have addressed this issue in judgments, excerpts of which are worth quoting, as they may contribute to at least a partial resolution of the issue of verification of contractor status in the near future.

Łukasz Kopeć writes about the case in detail on Lexplorers.

Link: http://lexplorers.pl/status-kontrahenta-wg-oplaty-cukrowej/.