Which agricultural organizations will receive 1.5 percent? from agricultural tax?

This is an obvious failure of the actions of MP Jarosław Sachajka (Kukiz’15), who was personally involved in the adoption of regulations on financing agricultural unions from agricultural tax.

List of those entitled to 1.5 percent. tax

Let us remind you that on January 1, 2024, the Act of July 13, 2023 amending the Agricultural Tax Act and certain other acts entered into force. The aim of the amendment was to create the possibility of financing trade unions of individual farmers by transferring 1.5% of the agricultural tax due by agricultural tax payers who are natural persons to a selected agricultural trade union.

Pursuant to the regulations, the minister responsible for agriculture prepares every year a list of entities entitled to receive 1.5% of agricultural tax and places it on the website of the office supporting this minister by the last day of February of a given tax year.

– We would like to inform you that in 2024, none of the entities applying for entry on this list met the conditions specified in Art. 257a section 1 point 2 of the Act of September 16, 1982 – Cooperative Law, art. 35a section 1 point 2 of the Act of 8 October 1982 on socio-professional organizations of farmers and Art. 8b section 1 point 2 of the Act of April 7, 1989 on trade unions of individual farmers – announced the Ministry of Agriculture.

Therefore, none of the agricultural organizations applying for the deduction – and there were seven of them – met the statutory requirements and none of them will receive 1.5% of agricultural tax.

And to think that the regulations were “tailored” directly to the National Union of Farmers, Agricultural Clubs and Organizations (!) and indirectly to NSZZ RI Solidarność.

Credit regulations also need to be changed

Other provisions pushed by MP Sachajko will probably be changed soon. This concerns the Lombard Loan Act, passed in April last year, which – in short – orders banks to treat farmers conducting agricultural activities as ordinary consumers and which “blocked” from January 7 this year. lending to farmers in Poland.

PSL requested to change these regulations:

but also the Ministry of Finance. The Ministry of Finance proposed to exclude from the application of the Credit Act consumer credit agreements concluded with a natural person running a farm, to exclude from the Civil Code contracts concluded by natural persons running a farm, based on which they receive support from public funds, funds of the National Economy Bank, European Investment Bank and European Investment Fund or others of a similar nature.

Adoption of the above-mentioned changes are planned for the first quarter of 2024.

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