The average amount of PIT tax paid radically. This is the result of shrinking reliefs

The average amount of PIT tax paid by Poles was this year. 5,000 PLN this year; This is an increase of 42 percent. In two years – Pitax calculated in the report. She added that the percentage of people who did not have to pay PIT at all decreased.

“High inflation and a shrinking group of people exempt from tax – these are the two main reasons for the increase in taxes paid. Pitax data shows that the average sum of the Danina tax authorities due to the tax authorities increased from PLN 3,500 two years ago to PLN 5,000 this year,” it was informed in the report. It has been added that the number of people who did not have to pay this tax at all – due to their income and the free amount – it decreased within two years from 43 to 33 percent.

The authors of the report noticed that over the past year by 4 percent. The number of people who received a tax refund has decreased by 3 percent. Instead, those who had to pay extra in their annual settlement. Tax refund – if the taxpayer was due – amounted to an average of 2 thousand. zloty. However, the record holder received 193 thousand. zloty.

It has been added that Poles still use the discounts due to them. They were most often used by residents of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodship, where 44 percent took into account the discounts. taxpayers. The least such people were in the province. West Pomeranian and Kujawsko-Pomorskie, where every third taxpayer settled the relief due to him.

“Polish taxpayers have the right to a fairly wide catalog of concessions and deductions, but many of them simply do not know what they can use. Still too few people deduct donations, expenses on the Internet, rehabilitation or use the full -family pro -family deductions. Our analyzes show that even authorized persons give up the relief, because they are afraid of mistakes or they do not have time to deal with it. them real losses – often calculated in hundreds or thousands of zlotys, “said Krzysztof Biernacki from Pitax, cited in the publication. (PAP)

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