PMM: Our Priority is Polish Ownership, Polish Capital, and Polish Entrepreneurs

23/05/2018

12:54

PMM:

Our Priority is Polish Ownership, Polish Capital, and Polish Entrepreneurs

Michał Olech

PMM: Our Priority is Polish Ownership, Polish Capital, and Polish Entrepreneurs - Ritually, during such meetings, one can say that Polish entrepreneurs have achieved a tremendous amount. Indeed, looking back at the 28, and soon 30 years since our transformation, in less than a year it will be possible to say, since the Round Table – which I opposed at the time, but it happened and our transformation began, and it's generally good that it started and proceeded on its own path. So, Polish entrepreneurs have achieved enormous success, sometimes against certain regulations, legislation, and certain actions from their environment, including the state and local government. Not always against, but one thing is characteristic of our system. I asked Minister Możdżanowska and the MPs earlier who is in the hall, what kind of entrepreneurs, micro, smallest, sole proprietorships, or two, three, five, ten-person businesses, or larger ones. I know there's a cross-section of small and medium-sized, and even slightly larger companies here. And such companies often had a tough time in Poland, because, to be honest, it was much easier in Warsaw, in a conventional sense, meaning in previous parliaments, to arrange things for the strong, well-represented. Even owners of commercial skyscrapers – these are powerful investment funds, various types, usually from the West. And do you think they paid taxes in Poland? Well, I'll say: no, they usually didn't pay in Poland, but it wasn't illegal. Simply, their skyscrapers, when you drive into Warsaw, Wrocław, Poznań, or Krakow, these commercial buildings were usually repackaged into some Luxembourgish, Irish schemes, 'Dutch-Swiss sandwiches,' as it was gracefully called in legal jargon, and they didn't pay taxes here. You, the state, usually paid taxes, usually, in the vast majority. Polish entrepreneurs paid taxes honestly in Poland. Please note the fundamental change in philosophy, because that's what I care about most. We are certainly making mistakes, I am certainly making them too, I stumble, but one thing is certain: we care primarily about Polish ownership, Polish capital, and Polish entrepreneurs. Looking at it this way, we have embarked on the most profound restructuring of the economic system in the last 30 years – said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki at the conference "The Right to Entrepreneurship. Small Companies, Big Changes”. He added that small and medium-sized companies save approximately 2 billion Polish zlotys annually as a result.

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