In Poland, the income taxation on individuals is progressive. This means that people who gain more contribute most of their income to the budget than those with lower wages. This strategy is based on the so-called. taxation thresholds – after exceeding a certain amount of income, the surplus is taxed at a higher rate. W 2 taxation rates apply to Poland. The 12-percent taxation threshold concerns income up to PLN 120 1000 gross. To exceed the second, 32 percent attempt, you gotta gain over PLN 12,000 gross per month. ZNP: The thresholds should be validatedIn December, according to Interia, any employees receive reduced pay. This is simply a group of people whose income exceeded PLN 120 thousand. In 2025, around 10% of taxpayers, or about 2.5 million people, could fall into the second taxation threshold. This group included any teachers who earned over PLN 120 thousand. But, as Urszula Woźniak, Vice president of the Union of Polish Teachers explains, not thanks to wage increases, as MEN claims, but due to the fact that they “save the system” and work for 1.5 jobs or 2 jobs. Then they step into the second threshold and work more, make little money. It's not fair. This needs to be changed and, for example, the thresholds should be valorized" – she stated in the ZNP communication quoted by Urszula Wozniak. Ministry of Finance: without the Interia threshold increase, the Ministry of Finance asked if there were plans for the second threshold to be raised. "In view of the current situation of public finances, including Poland's commitments to implement corrective actions in relation to the EU's excessive deficit procedure, as well as advanced defence spending, we inform that the forecast of the gross of the state budget for 2026 does not imply an increase in the income threshold of presently PLN 120 thousand," the ministry replied. And he said that there were no legislative work presently going on or even planned to change that. Read also:
