The last fewer days have been marked by more and more violations between the Washington and Warsaw administration.
Donald Tusk's government plans to introduce a digital taxation to cover the largest technological corporations operating in the country. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digitization Krzysztof Gawkowski announced that in the coming months a model of this taxation will be presented, and the funds obtained are intended to support the improvement of home technology companies, start-ups and media.
Gawkowski stressed that akin solutions already be in 35 countries, including France, Austria, large Britain and Canada. He pointed out that this is about large corporations that pay taxes, but in another countries they are much larger. The Minister added that the fresh taxation could transfer profits from powerful global corporations to the budget, and these funds could work for the improvement of Polish technology companies, support Polish start-ups, deep tech, cloud companies or the creation of qualitative content by the media.
In consequence to these plans, Thomas Rose, nominated by U.S. president Donald Trump as the United States Ambassador to Poland, criticized the initiative. On platform X (formerly Twitter) he wrote:
“Not besides wise! An auto-destructive taxation that only hurts Poland and its relations with the US. president Trump will take reprisal action. Cancel the taxation to avoid consequences!”
Thomas Rose is simply a conservative commentator and erstwhile publisher of “The Jerusalem Post”. In the past, he served as advisor to erstwhile US Vice president Mike Pence. His appointment as Ambassador to Poland was announced by president Trump in February 2025.
The plans to introduce a digital taxation in Poland are part of a broader trend in the taxation of global technological giants, with the aim of ensuring a fair contribution of these companies to local economies. However, criticism from US representatives indicates possible diplomatic tensions associated with specified actions.
The introduction of a digital taxation can bring financial benefits to Poland, but at the same time gives emergence to concerns about possible retaliation from the United States, which may affect relations between both countries.
