System opodatkowania rolnictwa w Polsce oraz w wybranych krajach Unii Europejskiej

Harmonisation of tax systems in the European Union member states is one of the most important tasks faced by the authorities of the Union on the path to tightening the international cooperation and transition to the next stage of integration that the economic union is. Thus, the analysis of the tax systems functioning in the Polish and European agriculture was the objective of own studies. Obtaining knowledge concerning the opinions of Polish farmers and those operating abroad on the taxation system, its strengths and weaknesses as well as the opinions on the issue of harmonisation of taxes in the Community and the proposed solutions aimed at facilitating standardisation of the tax law to the authorities of all the Union countries was also very important. Questionnaire based surveys were conducted during the second half of 2013 among 230 owners of agricultural farms (140 in Poland and 90 foreign). Poland and Germany are the countries where according to the farmers’ opinions the tax system is unorganised, unjust and ineffective. The average rating of the system and its individual components according to the 1 – 5 scale (1 – very poor, 5 – very good) was at the satisfactory (3) level. That situation is caused mainly by lack of stability of the regulations as well as numerous reforms which, although announced, have not been implemented so far. The taxation solutions were ranked slightly better ((good) by the French, Greeks and Swedes. It should also be pointed out that as many as 60% of the Polish farmers covered support liquidation of the agricultural tax and implementation of the income tax.