Distributed Profit Taxation - Polish and worldwide perspective

The Institute of Finance at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics is organising an internatinal conference on 9 December 2024  in hall I building C international conference entitled: 
Distributed Profit Taxation - Polish and worldwide perspective”. 


The subject of the conference is to summarise the first four years of the lump sum on corporate income in Poland from a legal and economic perspective and to look at the future of the distributed profits taxation model in Poland and worldwide. The conference will present, among other thingstopics, the conclusions of economic research conducted at the Warsaw School of Economics and by the Tax Foundation from the USA, as well as the perspective of representatives of the tax administration and business, including those from countries where the distributed profits tax operates, in particular Estonia and Latvia. As the key note speaker is expected to be Mr Daniel Bunn, President of the Tax Foundation.
Partial conclusions were developed in the first stage of research carried out at SGH at the request of MEiN - a task called: “Tax on divided profits, the so-called “Estonian” CIT as a target model for taxation of corporate income in Poland.

 

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The current Corporate Income Tax Act has been in force in Poland for more than 30 years. Permanent amendments in the last three decades have not only failed to solve many existing problems in corporate income taxation, but have also led to further complication of the tax system, resulting in increasing difficulties on the part of taxpayers in applying the provisions concerning them. The erosion of the tax base, which is seen in particular in tax avoidance techniques, is also a phenomenon that determines to a large extent the need for changes in income taxation. An important factor that may be at the root of the exhaustion of the traditional way of taxing certain economic phenomena or processes is the increasing complication of international business relations. The persistence of the legislator in taxing earned (accrual) income, forces further initiatives to adapt the current system to the changing reality and to the changing priorities of state economic policy.

Currently, there is a dualism of taxation of corporate income in Poland, based on:
- classical principles of taxation of accrual-based tax income (rule),
- a lump sum on company income based on the taxation of distributed profits (on an elective basis) introduced into the Polish tax system in 2021.

The essence of the tax on distributed profits is that the tax liability is linked to the point at which profits are distributed to the shareholders. As a result, funds retained in the company remain untaxed until they are distributed. The concept of distributed profits tax was first applied in Estonia in 2000. The favourable effects of replacing the classic CIT with a distributed profits tax have also encouraged other tax jurisdictions to work on providing taxpayers with the option of taxing corporate income on a basis modelled on the system in Estonia.Latvia, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova and Slovenia also have experience with a distributed profits tax, and, from since 2021, so will has Poland. 
The first step towards the implementation of a distributed profits tax was the introduction of the institution of a lump sum on income of capital companies into the Polish tax system. However, the Polish legislator did not replace the classic CIT model with a general tax on distributed profits, extending the new rules to the settlements of certain groups of taxpayers. This is also due to the optionality of the application of Estonian CIT, i.e. the right to choose (option) this taxation model.

Call for papers

We kindly invite you to submit article text proposals for the conference. Suggested topics include the following groups of problems:

  • evaluation of the classic principles of income taxationn of tax revenue,
  • the feasibility and validity of alternative principles of taxation of company profitsof alternatives to current income taxation rules,
  • forms practical forms of tax on distributed profits,distributed profit taxation model, 
  • legal and economic analysis of distributed profit tax implementations of distributed profits tax in other countries,
  • evaluation of the dualism of taxation of corporate income in Poland,
  • challenges facing the current system of taxation of company profitsCIT in Poland,
  • the impact of the current model of company income taxationCIT in Poland on investments, finances and dividend policy of companies,
  • short-term and long-term legal and economic consequences of the introduction of new principles of corporate taxationdistributed profit taxation in Poland,
  • simulation of the legal and economic effects of the implementation of the distributed profits tax model,
  • distributed profits tax and company valuation,
  • distributed profits tax vs. tax preferential systemtax preferences
  • tax compliance costs of Polish companies -– comparison of classic and flat rate rules on corporate incomeclassical CIT vs distributed profit taxation,
  • access to finance among Polish companiesCIT taxpayers

Technical requirements for the texts to be submitted:

  • texts in Word,
  • suggested volume: 15-25 pages
  • structure: abstract and keywords (both also in English) - introduction - main part - conclusion - literature,
  • basic text: font Times New Roman, size 12, spacing 1.5,
  • indentation: left 0 cm, right 0 cm, special - first line of paragraph 0.5 cm,
  • all pages numbered,
  • figures in Excel,
  • References: at the bottom of the page, Times New Roman, font size 11, leading 1,
  • APA citation and bibliography notation system,
  • References: typeface 1, spacing 1.5 between bibliographic entries.

Additional publishing requirements will be communicated to the authors of the selected texts. 

Selected post-conference papers will be published
  • written in Polish in the Zeszyty Naukowe SGH ‘Studia i Prace Kolegium Zarządzania i Finansów’. The author will receive 40 points for the publication. (https://econjournals.sgh.waw.pl/SiP)

     

  • written in English in the Journal of Management and Financial Sciences. - a journal published by the College of Management and Finance of SGH. The author will receive 40 points for publication.(https://econjournals.sgh.waw.pl/JMFS)

     

These journals are indexed in the following databases, among others: IC Journals Master List, BazEkon, PBN - Polish Scientific Bibliography. Ethical principles in accordance with COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) guidelines are applied.

Deadline
  • by December 31, 2024, please send titles and abstracts of proposed papers (or whole texts),
  • by January 31, 2025: the organisers will communicate the acceptance or rejection of the proposed paper,
  • by February 28, 2025: deadline for submission of post-conference papers.

 

The primary language of the conference will be English.

Please send your texts in Polish (including the abstract and keywords also in English) or in English.


CONTACT:
Institute of Finance, e-mail: if@sgh.waw.pl

PANELISTS:

dr hab. Michał Bernardelli, prof.SGH

Dean of Graduate Studies at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics and Head of the Physical Education and Sport Unit. A graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics at the University of Warsaw with two majors: Mathematics and Computer Science. He earned his doctoral degree in mathematics at the same faculty (in applied mathematics). He received his post-doctoral degree in economics at SGH. For over 20 years, he has been a consultant, manager, and executor of many scientific projects mainly related to econometric modelling and artificial intelligence.

Michał Bernardelli
Daniel Bunn

President and CEO of the Tax Foundation. Daniel has been with the organization since 2018 and, prior to becoming President, successfully built its Center for Global Tax Policy, expanding the Tax Foundation’s reach and impact around the world. Prior to joining the Tax Foundation, Daniel worked in the United States Senate at the Joint Economic Committee as part of Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) Social Capital Project and on the policy staff for both Senator Lee and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC).

Daniel Bunn
Michał Borowski

Michal Borowski, a lawyer and tax advisor with over 18 years of professional experience. A graduate of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the University of Warsaw. Since 2013, he has been a tax expert for Business Centre Club; since 2020, he has served as the Minister of Taxes in the Economic Shadow Cabinet of Business Centre Club, and since 2024, he has chaired the Tax Committee at Business Centre Club. He is also a member of the implementation team for the use of AI-based solutions in tax advisory and legal services.

Michał Borowski
Paweł Cybulski

Former Deputy Minister of Finance and Head of the National Revenue Administration, tax advisor. In his daily practice, he advises entrepreneurs on solutions related to counteracting financial crimes and abuses, AML/CFT, ESG, tax and actively works as a university teacher at the University of Economics in Wrocław and Poznań, the Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Krakow Academy, the Academy of Applied Economics in Radom and the Management Academy of Applied Sciences in Warsaw in the scope of the above specialization.

Paweł Cybulski
Patrycja Goździowska

Partner at SSW, tax advisor, specialises in providing comprehensive advice to both individual and corporate investors on mergers and acquisitions, devising capital and financial structures, restructuring projects and financing investments.

Patrycja Goździowska
dr hab. Marcin Jamroży, prof. SGH

Head of the Institute of Finance at  Warsaw School of Economics, Head of the Tax Department, Doctor habilitatus of Economic Sciences (2015), Doctor of Law Sciences (2004), Doctor of Economic Sciences (2001), Head of Postgraduate Studies on International Taxation, Head of Postgraduate Studies on Transfer Pricing and Tax Management, Member of the Program Council of Studies in Finance and Accounting, as well as in International Master Program in Management Accounting (from 2020); member of the Council for Tax Avoidance Matters (2020-2024); expert in the Tax Policy Department of the Minist

Marcin Jamroży
Henryk Kamiński

VP of the National Federation of Entrepreneurs and Employers PRZEDSIĘBIORCY.PL. Founder and President of the “Kon-Plast”  Co.Ltd Group  – one of the most dynamically developing companies in the plastics industry in Poland. Winner of the „Personality of the 30th Anniversary of the Republic of Poland” award in the Eagles of Polish Entrepreneurship Plebiscite and the award: „Honorary Badge for Merits to the Greater Poland Voivodeship”. It supports the development of companies in the implementation of modern technologies, infrastructure and machinery towards Industry 4.0.

Henryk Kamiński
dr Karlis Ketners

Karlis Ketners is Partnership professor at MBA programme “Customs Process Management” (Vytautas Magnus university (Lithuania)) and the Director of the Budget Policy Development Department at the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Latvia. Dr Karlis Ketners, in 1999, at the age of 23, obtained a Scientific Degree of Doctor in Economics at Riga Technical University. Before that, Kārlis Ketners obtained his Master’s degree in Engineering Economics (M.Sc.Ing) (summa cum laude) at Riga Technical University.

Karlis Ketners
Piotr Kościańczuk

Tax Advisor, Member of the Management Board of Skłodowscy sp. z o.o. Law graduate from Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw - graduated with distinction. Graduate of Warsaw University of Technology and currently its lecturer at the Faculty of Production Engineering. Completed MBA studies at the French Institute of Management. In 2012, he was entered on the list of Tax Advisors. He is involved in the topics of accounting and tax law. He specializes in issues related to goods and services tax and tax proceedings.

Piotr Kościańczuk
dr Anna Leszczyłowska

Dr Anna Leszczyłowska is an assistant professor at the Department of Corporate Finance at the Poznań University of Economics and Business. Her research interests include the impact of taxation on taxpayers» decisions.  Anna defended her doctoral thesis on consumption-oriented income tax at the University of Potsdam in a cotutelle program. She carried out research projects under DAAD and NCN grants, gave lectures at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Erasmus) and popularized tax knowledge in the UAM and Santander Universidades project.

Anna Leszczyłowska
Leszek Lewandowicz

Tax advisor, member of the Central Managing Board of the Accountants Association in Poland, expert and lecturer  in the field of tax law; author of numerous articles on tax issues.

Leszek Lewandowicz
dr hab. Rafał Lipniewicz

Rafał Lipniewicz - Head of the European Union Research and Documentation Center at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics of the University of Wroclaw. He specializes in international and European tax law and the impact of digitalization and robotization processes on the tax system. He is a member of the International Fiscal Association.

Rafał Lipniewicz
Aleksander Łożykowski

dr Aleksander Łożykowski – researcher at Warsaw School of Economics, tax advisor, legal counsel, director of the department of income taxes at the Ministry of Finance from 2019-2022, responsible for a series of reforms in income taxation, including the introduction of distributed profit taxation in Poland. Ex member of the State Examination Commission for Tax Advisory and the supervisory board of the Pomeranian Special Economic Zone. Lecturer and author of several dozen publications, particularly related to the taxation of entrepreneurs» income.

Aleksander Łożykowski
Alex Mengden

Alex Mengden is a Policy Analyst at the Tax Foundation, where he focuses on international tax issues and tax policy in Europe. He holds a BA in philosophy and economics from the University of Bayreuth and an MSc in economics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Prior to joining the Tax Foundation, Alex tutored classes in public finance for undergraduate students at LMU Munich and contributed to economic policy research at multiple think-tanks

Alex Mengden
Helen Pahapill

Helen Pahapill (LLM, Leiden University) works for the Estonian Ministry of Finance as a Tax Policy Adviser. She has held several positions in the Tax Policy Department over the years and is now responsible for Estonian international and EU direct tax policy. She has been Estonian tax treaty negotiator since 2001. She is also the Estonian delegate to the OECD CFA/IF and Working Party 1 on Tax Conventions and Related Questions as well as the the EU High Level Working Party for Tax Questions.

Helen Pahapill
Giorgi Papava

Giorgi Papava is the Lead Economist at ISET Policy Institute, an independent research institution based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Giorgi is a PhD candidate in Economics specializing in International Trade, Industrial Organization, and Public Economics. With over 15 years of experience in economic research, policy analysis, and consulting, he has worked extensively on private sector development, public finance management, and economic governance. Giorgi has a strong background in program evaluation, leading projects for organizations such as WB, IMF, USAID, OECD, and GIZ.

Giorgi Papava
Kyle Pomerleau

Kyle Pomerleau is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies federal tax policy.

Before joining AEI, Mr. Pomerleau was chief economist and vice president of economic analysis at the Tax Foundation, where he led the macroeconomic and tax modeling team and wrote on various tax policy topics, including corporate taxation, international tax policy, carbon taxation, and tax reform.

Kyle Pomerleau
Piotr Rodzeń

Member of the Board, Director of the Business Services Center at Maspex Holding SA.
Graduate of the Krakow University of Economics , MBA, statutory auditor. His area of responsibility covers i.a. corporate finance, accounting, tax strategies and post-merger integration processes of the Maspex Group.
 

Piotr Rodzeń
Jan Sarnowski

LL.M. (Köln), tax advisor, academic teacher. Member of the VAT Expert Group of the European Commission, managing director of the Center for Fiscal Studies at the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH). Expert in legal and tax handling of investment processes and cross-border transactions. 2019-2022 Deputy Minister of Finance in charge of the tax legislation in Poland, responsible for the implementation of tax reliefs for SME-s, manufacturing and new technologies industry (e.g. Estonian CIT, VAT groups, Polish Holding Company, family foundations, allowances for robotization and expansion).

Jan Sarnowski
Konrad Walczyk

WSE graduate, 1997. Ph.D. in economics, 2003 (WSE). WSE Department of Economics I, 2000-2010; WSE Research Institute for Economic Development (RIED), 2010 - present. RIED Deputy Director. Research interests and numerous papers on theory of taxation, fiscal policy, and business cycles. Participant of research projects financed by the National Science Centre, the National Centre for Research and Development, the National Bank of Poland, EU, and others. Lectures in microeconomics, macroeconomics, and economics of taxation.

Konrad Walczyk
dr Jarosław Wierzbicki

Jarosław Wierzbicki, PhD, graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (1998) and the Warsaw School of Economics-ScPo (1999). He obtained his doctoral degree in management at the Warsaw School of Economics (2002). 

Jarosław Wierzbicki
CALL FOR PAPERS

Uprzejmie zapraszamy do zgłaszania propozycji tekstów artykułów na konferencję. Sugerowana tematyka obejmuje następujące grupy problemów:

  • ocena klasycznych zasad opodatkowania dochodu podatkowego,
  • możliwość i zasadność wprowadzenia alternatywnych zasad opodatkowania zysków spółek,
  • formy podatku od dystrybuowanych zysków, 
  • analiza prawna i ekonomiczna wdrożeń podatku od wypłacanych zysków w innych państwach,
  • ocena dualizmu opodatkowania dochodów spółek w Polsce,
  •  wyzwania stojące przed systemem opodatkowania dochodów spółek w Polsce,
  • wpływ obecnie funkcjonującego w Polsce modelu opodatkowania dochodów spółek na inwestycje, finanse i politykę dywidendową spółek,
  • krótkookresowe i długookresowe konsekwencje prawne i ekonomiczne wprowadzenia nowych zasad opodatkowania przedsiębiorstw w Polsce,
  • symulacja efektów prawnych i ekonomicznych wdrożenia modelu opodatkowania dystrybuowanych zysków,
  • podatek od zysków dystrybuowanych a wycena spółek,
  • podatek od zysków dystrybuowanych a system preferencji podatkowych
  • koszty compliance podatkowego w polskich spółkach - porównanie zasad klasycznych i ryczałtu od dochodów spółek
  • dostęp do finansowania wśród polskich spółek

    Wymagania techniczne w stosunku do nadsyłanych tekstów:
  • teksty w programie Word,
  • sugerowana objętość: 15-25 stron,
  • struktura: abstrakt i słowa kluczowe (obydwie pozycje również w języku angielskim) – wstęp – część główna – podsumowanie – literatura,
  • tekst podstawowy: czcionka Times New Roman, rozmiar 12, interlinia 1,5,
  • wcięcia: z lewej 0 cm, z prawej 0 cm, specjalne – pierwszy wiersz akapitu 0,5 cm,
    wszystkie strony numerowane,
  • rysunki w programie Excel,
  • odnośniki: na dole strony, czcionka Times New Roman, rozmiar 11, interlinia 1,
  • system cytowania oraz zapisu bibliografii APA,
  • literatura: interlinia 1, pomiędzy poszczególnymi pozycjami bibliograficznymi interlinia 1,5.
    Dodatkowe wymogi wydawnicze zostaną przekazane Autorom wybranych tekstów. 
Wybrane artykuły pokonferencyjne zostaną wydane
  • napisane w języku polskim - w Zeszytach naukowych SGH „Studia i Prace Kolegium Zarządzania i Finansów”. Za publikację Autor otrzyma 40 punktów. (https://econjournals.sgh.waw.pl/SiP)
  • napisane w języku angielskim - w Journal of Management and Financial Sciences wydawanym przez Kolegium Zarządzania i Finansów SGH. Za publikację Autor otrzyma 40 punktów. (https://econjournals.sgh.waw.pl/JMFS)

Czasopisma  te są indeksowane m.in. w następujących bazach: 

IC Journals Master List, BazEkon, PBN - Polska Bibliografia Naukowa. Stosowane są zasady etyki zgodne z wytycznymi COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics).

TERMINARZ
  • do 31 grudnia 2024r. prosimy o nadsyłanie tytułów i abstraktów proponowanych opracowań (lub całych tekstów),
  • do 31 stycznia 2025 r. organizatorzy przekażą informację o przyjęciu lub odrzuceniu zaproponowanego opracowania,
  • do 28 lutego 2025 r.: ostateczny termin nadesłania opracowań pokonferencyjnych.
KOMITET ORGANIZACYJNY
  • dr hab. Joanna Wielgórska-Leszczyńska, prof.SGH
  • prof. dr hab. Janusz Ostaszewski
  • dr hab. Marcin Jamroży, prof.SGH
  • mgr Aleksander Łożykowski
  • mgr Jan Sarnowski
  • mgr Katarzyna Wasilewska

KONTAKT
Instytut Finansów email: if@sgh.waw.pl

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