UPDATE: Polish state assets ministry views excess profits tax for banks as bad idea
Imposing a tax on excess profits for banks is a bad idea, Minister of State Assets Jakub Jaworowski told a press conference.
"I think it is a bad idea," Jaworowski said when asked about the idea of imposing a tax on excess profits on banks.
"I don't think they were excess profits, they are part of the economic cycle and quite high-interest rates, and neither the banks nor the government are responsible for them (...) these calls are improper," he added.
Poland's minister of development funds and regional policy, Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz has previously assessed that it would be an adequate solution to impose a tax on excess profits on banks, and that the funds from this tax could be used, for example, for defence purposes.
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