The Polish tax office increases the observation of emigrants. The numbers don't lie. It turns out that in 2015-2017 the tax office received many times more information from abroad regarding Poles' income in other countries than in previous years. 

December report of EC experts

The numbers speak for themselves. . This is evidenced by the December report prepared by European Commission experts. The data contained therein concerns, among others, the exchange of information such as income or financial information about savings on accounts. There is one conclusion: emigrants are under the scrutiny of the tax office. It turns out that in countries where emigration is quite popular, the tax office used the so-called automatic exchange of information. Thanks to this, it knows how much a person earns abroad and then verifies these amounts with the declared earnings in tax returns. This makes it easy to determine the emigrant's "risk profile" and verify his PIT.

Who sends the most information?

When analyzing the data from the December report, you can see which country in the years 2015-2017 sent the most financial information overseas, it was Luksemburg. The second place is, which will probably be a surprise for many people, Irlandia. However, if we were to analyze in which countries in the above-mentioned period of time, the most money was accumulated in the account, that would be it Sweden, Great Britain and Belgium.

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Everything in accordance with the law

The Polish tax office is doing it as legally as possible by increasing the observation of emigrants. The Act of March 9, 2017 (Journal of Laws of 2017, item 648) clearly specifies the provisions on the exchange of tax information with other countries. The act informs about five exchange modes:

• automatically;
• upon request;
• automatic exchange of information on cross-border interpretations, hedging opinions and transfer pricing agreements;
• exchange of information on financial accounts;
• automatic exchange of information about the largest capital groups.

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European countries under the treasury's magnifying glass

The Polish tax office is obliged to send such data as information on earnings at work, cash benefits, pensions, pensions, or activities performed in person by, for example, a German in Poland, after six months from the date of obtaining such information. Of course, this automatic information exchange principle works both ways. Thanks to this, in 2016 of the year, the Polish tax office received information about 14 times more taxpayers and as much as Fr. 19 times more income than the data he provided abroad. Especially Polish emigrants from the Netherlands were on the candlestick. This data exchange was very often used by the Spanish and Portuguese tax offices, which as it turned out, received much more data than it sent itself. Countries such as Germany, Denmark, and Luxembourg rather share the information than use it.

The EU tax office and the success of the new regulations

It cannot be denied that the EU tax office is very pleased with the introduction of the new rules on automatic information exchange. It certainly brought him more benefits than losses. The data from the report clearly shows. That from the middle 2015 year, so since the information exchange started, the radius of cooperation between the countries has been widening. Results to June 2017 years show that data has been provided by then 16 mln taxpayers who collectively earned an income of value 120 billion euros.

What about the data on the invoices?

Although the exchange of financial information on accounts was not implemented until 2017 year, it has already brought a tangible effect. In the year it was implemented. Successful automatic exchange of information about 8,7 mln accounts and 3 mld eurothat have been collected on them. Experts agree on one thing: this form of information exchange may be the most effective in tightening the tax systems of individual countries. The regulations clearly state that they require reporting of information about foreign residents. This is not about people with "foreign residence". Which, in fact, is much easier to form in order to avoid obligations towards the tax office.