Polish Premier Tusk Says Better to Tax Banks Than Households

Polish cabinet will on Tuesday discuss bill to raise corporate tax on banks, Prime Minister Donald Tusk says in televised speech.

• “If we are to be a country that takes care of the weaker ones, guarantees higher earnings and is secure, we simply need to have more money. This is the brutal truth”
• Government wants to avoid having to increase burden on families and “it’s better to tax banks than households, especially that banks are in a very good financial position”
• Tusk hopes that everyone will be able to withhold pressure and “attacks” on the proposal
• Additionally, government will also ...