President Karol Nawrocki has referred the law on the windfall tax for fuel companies to the Constitutional Tribunal for preventive control, citing serious constitutional concerns over retroactive application. <\/p>\n
President Karol Nawrocki referred the law on the tax on extraordinary profits of fuel companies to the Constitutional Tribunal as part of preventive control, the Chancellery of the President announced on Friday. According to the head of state, the provisions raise serious constitutional doubts because they violate the principle that law cannot operate retroactively.<\/p>\n
The Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland stated that the president decided to refer the law on the tax on extraordinary profits achieved in the period from March to December 2026 from the sale of liquid fuels to the Constitutional Tribunal in preventive control mode. Karol Nawrocki indicated that he will not sign a law for which there are serious constitutional doubts.<\/p>\n
The president pointed out in the statement that the law is scheduled to enter into force in August, but the tax would cover income generated already from the beginning of March, representing an attempt at retroactive taxation. He noted that one of the fundamental guarantees of freedom in a state governed by rule of law is expressed in the Latin formula: lex retro non agit, meaning the law does not operate retroactively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President Karol Nawrocki has referred the law on the windfall tax for fuel companies to the Constitutional Tribunal for preventive control, citing serious constitutional concerns over retroactive application. Preventive Control Referral President Karol Nawrocki referred the law on the tax on extraordinary profits of fuel companies to the Constitutional Tribunal as part of preventive control, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}