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Pursuant to the Supreme Court resolution of January 21, 2011, the application of a real estate owner for establishment of easement of transmission for a reasonable fee interrupts the course of time required for acquisitive prescription of the easement.
Starting with January, the amended provisions of the Act on Corporate Income Tax have been in force, which relate to depreciation of property items contributed in-kind to partnerships.
On February 20, 2011 important changes which have been introduced to the act on land and mortgage registers and mortgage are coming into force.
Pursuant to the interpretation of the Head of the Tax Chamber in Warsaw of December 29, 2010 (IPPB2/415-920/10-2/AK) as a rule incomes of an employee should be subject to taxation.
At its session on January 5, 2011 the Sejm adopted an act which is to change the act on road transportation.
Since January 1, 2011 new provisions have been binding which relate to sending invoices via e-mail.
Out of the several changes to the acts relating to taxation it is worth mentioning that since January 1, 2011 new rules apply to taxation of dividends paid by foreign and domestic companies.
At the beginning of January of 2011 the Parliament has adopted an act on drivers.
On January 13, 2011 the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) issued a decision which prohibits Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) to take-over the company Energa.
Entrepreneurs should remember that the amendments within the scope of VAT which became binding at the beginning of 2011 do not consist exclusively of the temporary increase in the tax rate.
The Parliament is working on further changes to the act on VAT tax, the majority of which are supposed to come into force on February 1, 2011.
The Sejm has accepted the act according to which civil servants will be financially liable for gross breaches of law during execution of their public powers.
Employers are under the obligation to pay ZUS [Social Insurance Institution] premiums as well as advance payments for income tax on employees’ trainings in which, except for developing their professional qualifications, the employees also enjoyed other attractions.
On December 15, 2010 the first reading of the act on the amendment to the Civil Code took place in Sejm.
On January 1, 2011 an amended act of September 29, 2010 on mitigation of consequences of the economic crisis for employees and entrepreneurs will come into force.
On December 14, 2010 the government accepted a draft change to the act on tax on goods and services.
The Ministry of Economy has prepared a draft of amendment to the act on banking law.
On December 3, the Sejm accepted a draft of act on rationalization of employment in national budget units or some other public finance sector units in the years: 2011-2013.
On December 7 the government approved the national plan of actions relating to energy from renewable sources as presented by the minister of economy.
The changed act on tax on goods and services will become binding on January 1, 2011.
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