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Sejm removes VAT on food, gas, energy

The Sejm, the lower of house of parliament, on Thursday passed a law temporarily scrapping VAT on food, gas and energy under a government scheme designed to shield Poles from the effects of rising inflation.

The law, passed unanimously as an amendment to existing VAT legislation, also cuts the VAT on fuel to 8 percent and on heating to 5 percent.

The new VAT rates will be in force from February 1 to July 31.

On Thursday Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland’s prime minister, said the anti-inflation measures will save households up to several hundred zlotys a month.

Morawiecki said the plan was the government’s answer to Poland’s current situation, in which it “is facing a global crisis, and inflation crisis, a post-pandemic crisis, an economic crisis.”

Inflation in Poland rose to 8.6 percent in December.

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