Not earning yet but spending from previously earned and family money, and other tax issues

, but any answer will be a great help.

...around 8 months.

2- I don't have NIP yet, is that a problem in my case with no job yet in Poland? will they ask me later about that, i mean when times come to apply for permanent residency ?

3- I receive some money from my family abroad sent to my account abroad, and i could get this through my foreign credit card via poland atm; any income taxes due to pay? will they come to me after a year and ask me how i am getting money, and how i am surviving? and is it ok if i am withdrawing from a foreign account in another country via atm machine in poland?

4- Meanwhile, i might get a job contract signed (crossing fingers!!) within the coming month, as i just had successful interview in dubai. In such a case, if i will start working for them by travelling back and forth, do i need to pay tax in Poland for the income earned abroad?

5- Lastly, i am thinking about another alternative-in case no contract signed, which is to open an offshore company in my country backhome, and try to get some marketing and hopefully some private clients (i teach and work in interior design). If i succeed in gettting some clients out of poland (i am planing to market it within the middle east), and i prepare their design work at my home in poland, will i need to pay taxes in poland in case i will earn?

Technically, yes - you should be declaring this income. Poles can be jealous types - if the taxman comes calling and you've got a nicely furnished flat with all sorts of electrical goodies, but no job - it might arouse suspicion. However, your situation isn't uncommon

my understanding is that if where you come from a country which has a taxation agreement with Poland you do not pay tax unless the money earned was derived from Poland, the agreement is such that a person should not be taxed twice... are you telling me that tourist have to pay income tax

but I know a man in the pub who can give you tax advice for the price of a kotlet dinner

I don't think Mr B would accept a free kotlet, your comments only fuel more confusion, How is the tax office going to know where the money comes from, besides its his money and tax has been paid....

its a gift not income.....

however in most countries if you are given a gift it is treated as income, non taxable within certain limitsdepending on the country

Don't confuse fringe benefits like a company car/rent etc, this forms income, but giving somebody a few hundred zlote, fair crack of the whip, get serious will you...what happens to a person working in the UK and transfers his money to a Polish Bank, has he to pay more tax,, don't think so.

Sorry Mr D have to challenge you with this one, my understanding is that if where you come from a country which has a taxation agreement with Poland you do not pay tax unless the money earned was derived from Poland, the agreement is such that a person should not be taxed twice... are you telling me that tourist have to pay income tax

you need to use someone good to give you tax advice so if the men from the tax office come knocking you can show
them the letter from your advisor as a get out of jail card and if necessary sue your tax advisor for giving you bum advice

but they should declare the income (even though it is a gift) but would not be taxed on it

-can the tax office-if they want- track the credit card account out of poland to really confirm that the money comes from father? do i have to confirm that the money is given by my parents? but in most of the cases, i get the money hand to hand from parents when i visit them every 3 months, i can legally bring - according to eu law- up to 9 999 euro without decalring them. And frankly, if i bring even this limit (though never that much yet) , i don t need more for 3 months of living.

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You would be much better served paying an accountant to look at this for you rather than rely on the advice of amateurs on here - all the big and middle sized firms are in Warsaw, speak English and for EUR 500 you would get 2-3 hours of someone good and a memo.

Delphian is right that such a memo is not a get out of jail free card - but in reality unless you are dealing with millions then the tax authorities won't often take you on if you have one as they don't fancy court cases where the bigger firms are defending tax payers.

You would be much better served paying an accountant to look at this for you rather than rely on the advice of amateurs on here - all the big and middle sized firms are in Warsaw, speak English and for EUR 500 you would get 2-3 hours of someone good and a memo

...my question is: as i have been checking recently the option of having an offshore company registered in my country back home, i read that in poland one can open representative office of that company but without doing business locally, but out of poland. does this previous paragraph applies to representative office? one of my options-as i posted before- is to have my company registered back home, operate in the middle east , have clients in the middle east, but have repreentative office in poland for marketing purposes. does that then demand from me to pay income tax? in addition, if i want to hire local polish person for that representative company to work in poland's representative office, am i eligible to do so?