At copyright meetings, Marcin Bogdan encouraged to read his book “The Last Years of Poland in Columns”,explained what the CPK task truly is and why its implementation in its first form is so crucial for the Polish economy. At the request of the audience of these meetings, our columnist wrote a text that was a brief answer to the question: Why do we request CPK?
That question is inactive in public discourse. Opponents of the task to build the Central Communication Port ask whether Poles will actually fly massively to another continents, whether Asians plan to travel to Poland or Europe with landing in Baranów. specified questions lead to a discussion about the CPK as the CPK is to be primarily a cargo port and only in the second place, as it were, a passenger airport.
Cargo cargo airport requires a special, technically advanced handling and retention infrastructure. specified infrastructure cannot be built into existing passenger airports in Poland, specified as Chopin Airport in Warsaw. The cargo cargo airport must be built from scratch in the field allowing the creation of an extended logistics base. Only erstwhile we realise that CPK is to be primarily a cargo port can we ask questions about the legitimacy of this investment.
Poland is simply a associate of the European Union and the Union is primarily a common customs territory. This means that associate States cannot impose individual work rates on goods imported outside the Union. It is the Union that decides on these rates, but besides on how to charge them. In order to avoid abuse and attempts to circumvent the law, the rule was adopted that non-Union goods are charged taxes (duty and VAT) in the country where the goods crossed the borders of the Union alternatively than in the country of destination. By virtue of this principle, goods which are moved within the EU to the country of destination after entering the EU are already taxed and do not change their customs and taxation value. It's called a non-transaction decision of its own. 75% of the taxes charged in this way go to the EU budget for its organisational purposes, while 25% go to the state budget where the imported goods were transferred.
What does this mean in practice? If a Polish citizen or entrepreneur import goods from outside the EU and will fly to the airport, for example, in Germany, then the Polish buyer will pay taxes (duty and VAT) in Germany alternatively than in Poland. 75% of these taxes will go to the EU, while 25% will contribute to the country's budget, in this case Germany. The deficiency of a specialized cargo airport in Poland causes that presently only 17% of goods ordered by Poles go straight to Poland and in Poland are taxed, while 83% land in another EU countries, mainly in Germany. Poles buy goods from outside the EU with their own money, but taxes on these transactions are paid to the budget of another country. Most frequently to the German budget.
If the CPK were created in the initially assumed form, most of the goods imported by Poles by air from outside the EU could be sent straight to Poland. But besides goods ordered by citizens of countries specified as Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Romania or even Hungary, which do not have cargo airports, could land at the Polish airport. Then citizens of these countries would pay taxes (duty and VAT) to our Polish budget by buying goods from outside the Union with their own money. And we're talking about immense amounts. The value of goods imported from outside the Union is around $3 trillion a year, which generates taxes worth about US$1 trillion. 75% of this amount goes straight to the EU, but the rest, or about $250 billion, goes to the budgets of the countries that carry out the briefings. It is simply a pure wage, the money is paid in kind of a vending machine, for the fact that a customs and taxation paper is issued. And there are besides earnings for logistics and storage, retention and transport. This is another billion and thousands of fresh jobs.
How much money it is and how certain it is to gain it is that global aviation companies were prepared to invest large money in the construction of CPK in exchange for number shares in this project. They were willing to invest in CPK but CPK did not want Germany. Thus CPK does not want the Tusk government. The question put by the opponents of this project, why do we request a CPK, therefore, is in fact as follows:
Why do we request Poland's taxation money erstwhile it can go to the German budget?
Mr Bogdan
