Opodatkowanie dochodów z działalności rolniczej – propozycja rozwiązań
The need for reform of the income tax for agricultural producers

Summary/Abstract: Agricultural tax is one of the oldest still existing burdens occurring in our tax system. The dynamic development of the rural areas, especially after the Polish accession to the European Union, emphasized many archaic features of that tax. An additional motivator to legislative changes in the taxation of farms should also be Constitutional Court’s judgment of 26 October 2010, act signature: K 58/07, declaring unconstitutional farmers discrimination as a social group, which in general is subsidized by the state budget (through the agricultural system of social insurance). Judgment mentioned above imposes on the legislature the duty of the social stratification in farmers of their income, which in the author’s opinion, can be achieved through the introduction of a new income tax. The author aims to assess the current legal status in the field of agricultural tax, as well as to describe one of the methods for determining farms income, which could be tax base of new income tax. Due to the significant connection of farms with the local community the new tax should also be the local tax, like the old agricultural tax. Therefore, these subjects are important for budgetary income of rural municipalities.

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