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And it was supposed to be so beautiful. They thought that it would be enough to lower taxes for 10 million earners below the national average and 8 million retirees, and they would have a third term in their pockets. However, they are amateurs of the first water and they were not able to effectively implement even such a simple idea. They are such idiots that in a competition for the biggest idiot they would take second place, and the undertaking perversely called by them "Polish Deal" instead of a springboard will certainly turn out to be the nail in their coffin.

Kaczyński won a second term in 2019 with an overwhelming result of 43.59% for four years in power, which gave him a small but stable majority in the Sejm, and in 2020 he also won the presidential election, in which the puppet he nominated received 51.21% of the votes.
In the sixth year of their rule, the government's approval ratings remained high despite the incompetence, bungling and frauds of those in power, because most Poles believed that although they were stealing, unlike their predecessors, who also stole, they at least shared what they stole.

Kaczyński, however, was not fooled by the magic support columns and knew perfectly well that his power, like any other, would sooner or later wear off. So he came up with the idea that Poles had to be given something again, in order to secure a third term in the middle of his second term. He himself is indeed planning to retire – he announced that he would do so right after the next elections, after turning seventy-five – but he would not want the prosecutor's office to harass him during the time he intended to devote to contemplating the autumn of his life.

The 500+ number could not be repeated for a simple reason – the state coffers are empty. Handouts and the pandemic have effectively emptied the national treasuries, and on top of that the perfidious EU has insisted on blocking the payment of the billions that are so owed to us.

Well, since they couldn't give anything anymore, they came up with the idea of taking less.

The task of working out the details of the solution was given to Mateuszek, who approached it as seriously as he could, because he knew that there would be no second chance from the leader - among the top brass, he is perceived as an alien body, originating from the filthy banking elites and having too much money in their account, and would put the president in a very awkward situation if he failed.

Unfortunately for Mateuszek and for the Poles, Mateuszek turned out to be a not-so-bright tax expert. Instead of solving the problem with a simple, understandable tax cut for all taxpayers, he invented a monster. He complicated the already complicated tax system by changing the calculation of health insurance contributions, introducing relief for the middle class and a few other, badass solutions, with all due respect to the badasses. A horse with a row to anyone who understands what these changes are all about. Ninety-nine percent of citizens have no chance of doing so, but not because they are unintelligent, but because it is f*cked up - I apologize for the vulgar word, but I can't think of anything better at the moment. This is much better illustrated by a certain meme I found online, showing several professors writing down complicated mathematical formulas on a green board, signed as follows: "scientists from the Polish Academy of Sciences calculate health insurance contributions on behalf of a hairdressing salon from Otwock".

As a result of the changes proposed by Mateuszek, a retiree receiving an average pension of PLN 2,500 will not pay any tax at all and will gain about PLN 180 per month, while 10 million Poles earning between PLN 3,000 and PLN 6,000 will save an average of less than PLN 100 per month. The annual cost of this tax cut for 18 million Poles is about PLN 30 billion. These costs will be covered by a million higher earners and two million people running a business. Mateuszek is therefore taking five hundred or a thousand from three million higher earners and giving a hundred to 18 million lower earners. He is also pushing a cheap line, saying that this is a great program of civilizational change and reform of the tax system. But this is just a typical Janosik, Mateuszek-Kłamczusz.

The idea for the Polish Deal was therefore highly controversial in its concept, its preparation and adoption was done in a hurry and on the knee, and our magnates outdid themselves with their implementation.
It started with teachers and uniformed services, who receive their salaries in advance and were already rubbing their eyes in surprise when they looked at their pay slips in the first days of January. In the last months of the old year, they were promised huge incomes on the ROR from January, and suddenly it turned out that there were actually a few hundred, but in the red. This is the result of the employee not submitting the so-called PIT2, a declaration thanks to which the tax relief, increased from January 1, 2022 to the amount of PLN 425 per month, is deducted from the tax each month, and not only in the annual settlement. So live on a net four hundred less, crediting the state budget for a year and wait for a refund when settling the PIT in April 2023. Mateuszek simply forgot to tell the employees about this small declaration in the flood of work, thanks to which taxpayers quickly concluded that the incumbent prime minister can pride himself not only on truthfulness and reliability, but also on a high level of imagination.

It quickly turned out that the Polish Deal was as full of holes as Swiss cheese. Pensioners with long service will be punished for working long hours, single parents will no longer be treated as family and will lose the right to jointly file taxes with their children, and spouses filing jointly will get a cut – these are just some of the flowers.

The "PIT2" problem was solved by a sloppy regulation of the Minister of Finance, which came into force on January 8, imposing on payers the unpleasant obligation to calculate salaries twice, i.e. according to the new and old tax system, and in the event that the employee's net calculated according to the old rules turned out to be more advantageous than the net calculated according to the new rules - to shift this surplus in time. A real tax masterpiece.

The regulation, however, has a flaw, as it requires people earning between PLN 8,500 and PLN 12,800 per month to return part of the accrued tax, which they must then return to the tax office when filing their annual tax return.

Mateuszek completely botched his job. And although he will probably patch up all those holes in a few months, and withdraw some of the changes, the crying, tears and bad taste he caused in a large part of accountants and taxpayers will stay longer than this God-forsaken power of his.