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Article: Poland mulls options to avoid VAT hike for internet access, to cut sky-high access costs.
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- Poland Business News
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- September 30, 2003
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Poland mulls options to avoid VAT hike for internet access, to cut sky-high access costs
Warsaw. September 30. INTERFAX-EUROPE - Poland's leftist government said Tuesday it had set up an inter-ministerial team to examine ways to avoid hiking the value-added-tax (VAT) to a level meeting European Union norms and to reduce current costs, which are among the highest in the OECD.
Poland's Finance Ministry has said it would be obliged to raise the VAT charge on internet access from the current preferential rate of 7% to the standard services rate of 22% when the country joins the EU next May. Shrill objections from the political opposition and from industry ...