{"id":2899,"date":"2026-06-16T18:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/government-revives-alcohol-excise-tax-hike-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T18:42:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:42:34","slug":"government-revives-alcohol-excise-tax-hike-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/government-revives-alcohol-excise-tax-hike-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Revives Alcohol Excise Tax Hike Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Finance has announced plans to increase excise duties on alcohol in 2027, revisiting legislation previously vetoed by the President to boost funding for the National Health Fund.  <\/p>\n<h4>New Legislative Proposal<\/h4>\n<p>The Ministry of Finance has officially commenced work on amendments to the excise tax act and the act on healthcare services financed from public funds. Information published on the Prime Minister\u2019s website indicates that the government intends to pursue tax hikes that were previously blocked by the presidential veto.<\/p>\n<h4>Adjusting the Excise Roadmap<\/h4>\n<p>The proposed changes aim to update the existing excise tax roadmap for 2027. The new rates are intended to align with the provisions of the legislation passed on November 7, 2026, which failed to receive the President&#8217;s signature.<\/p>\n<h4>Funding Public Healthcare<\/h4>\n<p>The government plans to link the tax revenue directly to public health financing. Under the proposal, the increased excise income will be allocated as a subsidy to the National Health Fund (NFZ), specifically to support the financing of medical services starting in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Finance has announced plans to increase excise duties on alcohol in 2027, revisiting legislation previously vetoed by the President to boost funding for the National Health Fund. New Legislative Proposal The Ministry of Finance has officially commenced work on amendments to the excise tax act and the act on healthcare services financed [&hellip;]<\/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":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","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=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bizonews.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}