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Polish lawmakers approve copper tax cut ahead of election

15th April 2019

By: Reuters

  

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WARSAW – Poland's lower house of parliament, dominated by the ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, approved on Friday a 15% cut in the copper tax to allow more investment by state-run copper producer KGHM.

The mining levy was introduced in 2012 by PiS's predecessors in an attempt to improve the state budget.

Calculated using a complicated formula based on local production volumes, the tax primarily affects KGHM, one of the world's biggest copper and silver producers, which has struggled with rising costs.

Poland holds a general election later this year. PiS promised to lower the tax ahead of the last such vote in 2015, but so far no cut had been implemented.

KGHM is a major employer in southeast Poland and reducing the tax would be a welcome move for many voters in the region.

KGHM paid 1.67-billion zlotys ($442-million) in mining tax in 2018, while the group's net profit was 1.66-billion zlotys.

Reducing the mining levy will lower budget revenues by an estimated 180-million zlotys in 2019 and 240-million zlotys in subsequent years.

Edited by Reuters

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