System (zbiór) podatków samorządowych – wstępne propozycje uporządkowania
Local Government Tax System – Initial Restructuring Proposals

Summary/Abstract: In Poland, local government tax is a source of own revenue exclusively for communes (“gmina”), whereas larger administrative units such as counties (“powiat”) and voivodeships do not have access to this source of finance. Therefore, the law should be modified to enable full implementation of the standards stipulated by the Constitution of the Republic of Poland and the European Charter of Local Self-Government. Moderate reforms would lead to providing counties and voivodeships with their own sources of revenue, thus enabling their fiscal autonomy. Moreover, the process of restructuring the operational responsibility should come to an end and commune tax organs should be given competence to deal with such fiscal issues as inheritance and gift tax, civil law transaction tax and flat-rate income tax in the form of fixed amount tax. The local government tax system should become a significant and lasting foundation of financial autonomy for local government units. 

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