The Goods and Services Tax (VAT) Act provides for a closed list of special schemes, including one concerning flat-rate farmers. It provides for a number of facilitations exempting the farmer from administrative formalities such as issuing invoices. However, in reality, the status of a flat-rate farmer entails numerous risks due to the ambiguity of the rules. The article addresses selected issues arising from long court disputes as to the correctness of the interpretation of the law. Controversies arose, inter alia, in the context of running a joint agricultural holding and registration of one of the co-owners as a VAT taxable person.
The issue of taxation of real estate expropriation for road investments was also the subject of numerous statements of case law and legal scholarship. In addition, the article discusses practical doubts related to the farmer having simultaneously two tax statuses: that of a flat-rate farmer and that of an active VAT taxable person with regard to non-agricultural activity. This, in turn, often raises the issue of the mutual influence of the parallel economic activity and agricultural holding. The strict demarcation of these two types of activity is of significant importance, as a violation of the indivisibility of the status of a flat-rate farmer may result in the tax authorities questioning previous settlements. The last part of the article is devoted to the subject of incidental services provided by the farmer, and therefore ones not being a manifestation of economic activity.
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