In recent weeks, the government of Prime Minister Morawiecki has submitted three extremely important bills to the Sejm: on the zero VAT rate on food, freezing prices for electricity and gas, and on credit exemptions, which unfortunately Marshal Szymon Hołownia is still doing not. put them in order.
However, on the agenda of the Sejm next week is the appointment of three investigative committees: the first will deal with the so-called envelope elections, the next will deal with the so-called visa scandal, and the third will be the Pegasus case; it is also being considered to bring the NBP president before the State Tribunal.
At first glance it is already clear that the investigative commissions proposed by Hołownia will be established for matters that cannot be described other than ‘subject matter’, and the announcement to bring the President of the NBP before the State Tribunal is a kind of playing with firework.
This is an attack on the independence of the central bank, which is protected both at the level of every civilized and democratic country and at the level of the European institutions (ECB, CJEU), because the NBP is part of the European system of central banks are located. banks.
Three shields
Let us remind you that maintaining the zero VAT rate on food throughout the year will reduce the revenue from this tax by about 10 billion zlotys, while the so-called Loan Holidays indirectly weigh on the state budget through income tax revenues (including bank taxes) paid by the banks, because the costs are borne directly by banks that provided loans in PLN for the first apartment for young people.
In turn, the costs of freezing electricity prices have so far been borne directly by the energy companies, and gas prices by the multi-energy company Orlen (this year they amounted to about 14 billion złoty), but this obviously affected their financial results , the level of profits and, consequently, lower contributions to the budget due to income tax.
Tusk claimed that everything was carefully counted
It is true that some opposition MPs, especially those from PSL and the Left, assure in public statements that in all these matters they have a similar view to the Law and Justice government, that is, that the anti-inflation shields should be expanded , because as well as the credit holidays, but as everything indicates, Platform politicians will have a different opinion about this.
Well, the new platform MP Andrzej Domański, as well as Donald Tusk’s main economic advisor and the party’s candidate for Minister of Finance, a few days ago firmly answered Rymanowski’s questions on Radio Zet that he was against maintaining zero VAT rate on food and the extension of the holidays also in 2024 (he did not comment on the freezing of electricity and gas prices).
MP Domański used rather bold arguments in both cases, stating that since the platform promised to increase teacher salaries by 30 percent, money for this purpose must be sourced somewhere.
However, the nervous search for sources of financing for the salary increase for teachers announced by the Platform is shocking, because when Donald Tusk announced it publicly, he claimed that everything had been carefully calculated and that the money for it was guaranteed.
If there is a shortage of ‘bread’, voters should be served more ‘games’.
It seems that it is because of these serious program differences between the parties of the new majority in the Sejm that Marshal Hołownia is in favor of the introduction of anti-inflation shield projects and credit holidays.
Donald Tusk does not allow these to be put on the agenda because, as you can guess, the candidate for Minister of Finance Andrzej Domański, when he said that he is against these solutions, was not just talking about his position, but rather about the decision already made by the head of the future government.
Everything indicates that from January 1 next year there will be no extension of the zero VAT rate on food, no credit exemptions, and perhaps no freeze on electricity and gas prices.
There will be investigative committees for envelope elections, another so-called the visa scandal or the Pegasus scandal, so in a situation where there is a shortage of “bread”, voters should be served more “games”.
Source: wPolityce