Monitor Podatkowy

no. 3/2022

Sugar tax regulations should be improved

DOI: 10.32027/MOPOD.22.3.5
Jacek Matarewicz
Autor jest adwokatem, doradcą podatkowym, Partnerem w Kancelarii Ożóg Tomczykowski sp. z o.o.; ORCID: 0000 0002 3529 8658.
Abstract

“The first pancake is always spoiled”, you might say about the sugar tax introduced in Poland. However, some gaps and errors can be corrected based on the practice developed so far and the emerging interpretative and jurisprudence line. Indeed, the wording of the provision should reflect the actual intention of the legislator, who hastily passed the act amending the Public Health Act to the extent introducing a new tax, forgetting that the provisions should not be mutually exclusive. So he passed the law, unfortunately as full of holes as Swiss cheese.