The new obligations in Polish law to keep an electronic tax register
From January 1st, 2018, the obligation to keep an electronic tax register was imposed on the remaining group of VAT taxpayers who keep their records using software programming.
Thus, every active VAT payer is obliged to keep an electronic register in the form of VAT records on sales and purchases and send it in the form of a Standard Audit File-Tax to controlling authorities (in this case, the Minister of Finance who will forward the data to the appropriate tax offices). This obligation also applies to micro-entrepreneurs running a sole proprietorship in Poland.
Moreover, starting from July 1st, 2018, each of the active VAT taxpayers will have to have, in the event of tax control, the other records in the SAF-T format listed in the Act, such as records of the book of revenues and expenses, records of revenues, sales invoices, warehouse and bank statements.
A failure to comply with the above duty may result in a financial fine being imposed on the entrepreneurs.
