State Aid: Special Economic Zones

PricewaterhouseCoopers is providing comprehensive services to entrepreneurs conducting business activities in SEZs - both to entrepreneurs who have just commenced business activity in the zone and to the so-called “old zone entrepreneurs”.

Our services for zone entrepreneurs include a tax audit comprising i.a.:
  • assistance in the procedure of investment inclusion into SEZ as well as support in obtaining the permit to operate within the Special Economic Zone,
  • analysis and assessment of the methodology of calculating the tax result in order to assess whether it enables correct declaration of the income subject to tax exemption,
  • review of requirements for the accountancy system with respect to the proper allocation of revenues and costs,
  • assistance in the identification of particular sources of income as taxable or tax exempt,
  • review of rules for dividing (allocating) tax deductible costs from tax exempt and taxable business activity, based on the example of particular transactions,
  • review of rules for settling losses from the tax exempt business activity,
  • review of rules for calculating the current state aid limit together with monitoring its utilization,
  • review of procedures regarding reporting obligations for CIT and state aid purposes,
  • preparing a practical manual concerning the rules for using the state aid in form of tax exemption within SEZ.
We offer services with respect to the following forms of State Aid:
  • Initial investment incentives;
  • Support for employment;
  • Tax exemptions in Special Economic Zones;
  • Employee Training Aid;
  • Research & Development incentives;
  • Support for Small and Medium Enterprises;
  • Real estate tax exemptions;
  • Technology loans;
  • Restructuring Aid;
  • Environmental Aid.