Luka podatkowa w podatku od towarów i usług w Polsce

Abstract

One of the most important institutions of a tax system in the country is tax impact on the marketing of goods and services. In Poland, this tax is the tax on goods and services (VAT), the most powerful of all tribute of the public feed the state budget. The proceeds of this tax could be even greater if not for the fact that some of them, known as tax gap, never hit to this budget. The aims of the work are: 1) identification causes of the tax gap, including VAT, 2) an indication of the size of the informal economy in Poland in relation to other EU countries, 3) presentation of the most common mechanisms for tax fraud, leading to the emergence of gaps in the VAT, 4) presentation of the size of the tax gap in the VAT in selected years. The period covered by the study covers the period 2004-2014.