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Deadline for reporting to the Register of Beneficial Owners: April 13th, 2020
As we have already indicated in our Newsletter No. 30/2019, every company entered into the National Court Register, e.g. all limited liability companies, shall report…
New obligation – application of real beneficiaries
As of October 13th, 2019, companies must submit information on beneficial owners to the Central Register of Beneficial Owners (hereinafter: “the Register of Beneficiaries’’). Those companies that have been registered in the National Court Register before…
Again, changes in the labor law
On 04.05.2019 the Act of 21.02.2019 implementing the GDPR came into force.
The Amendment refers to over 160 legal acts, among which the most important for each employer are the labor code and the act on the company…
Employee Capital Plans
We would like to remind you that from 01.07.2019 the first group of entities (those that as at 31.12.2018 employed at least 250 employees) will be subject to the Act of 04.10.2018 on employee capital plans (PPK).
The National Labor Inspectorate will be controlling companies with regard to the employee capital plans in 2019
The information published by the National Labor Inspectorate shows that due to the entry into force of the Employee Capital Plans Act in 2019, the audits of the obligation to conclude contracts for conducting the Employee Capital Plans and contracts for the management of the Employee Capital Plans…
Central register of real beneficiaries
On July 13th, 2018, the Act of March 1st, 2018 on Counteracting Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing entered into force (Journal of Laws of 2018, item 723). The Act aims to implement the requirements set out, inter alia, in Directive (EU) 2015/849 of the European Parliament and of the Council of May 20th, 2015 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing, amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and repealing Directive 2005/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Directive of the Commission 2006/70/EC.
For the companies conducting business activity in Poland, the most significant change that will take effect from October 13th, 2019, as introduced by the abovementioned act, is the creation of the Central Register of Beneficiaries (hereinafter: “Register of Beneficiaries”) and obligations related to this that will be borne by all companies. To submit information on actual beneficiaries and their updates to the Register of Beneficiaries, will be obliged:
Employee Capital Programs
Please be kindly informed that the legislative process related to the entry into force of the revolutionary Act on Employee Capital Plans (hereinafter “PPK”) is coming to an end. If nothing extraordinary happens, it should be assumed that the act will become effective from January 1, 2019.
From 2019 “revolution” in keeping employee records
Employee records no longer have to be kept in a paper form
Managers with higher social security contributions
The information on the website of the Constitutional Tribunal indicate that Tribunal cancelled the hearing planned for 10th of July 2018, on which the president’s application to examine the compatibility of the Act of 15th of December 2017 on the amendment of the Act on Social Security System and certain other acts was to be examined.
JPK at the request
From 1st of July 2018, at the request of the tax authority, according to the Article 193a of the Act of 29th of August 1997 Tax Ordinance, every tax payer who keeps tax registers with the use of computer software should take into account the possibility that the tax...
Employee capital program (PPK)
Unfortunately, the legislator does not make it easier for us to answer this question, and the time to make a choice is less and less. The assumption is for PPK to be effective from 1 January 2019, but the project regulations introducing the program (the Employee...
New duties related to the National Court Register
The latest amendment to the Act on the National Court Register, which entered into force on 15th of March 2018, introduced several significant changes. Among them, the obligation to submit in the National Court Register (hereinafter referred to as "KRS"): 1) addresses...