
Finance Minister Andrzej Domański presented the budget assumptions for 2027, while Law and Justice politicians accuse the government of pursuing policies leading to poverty and unemployment.
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The government presented a draft budget for 2027 with a deficit exceeding PLN 280 billion. The Public Finance Act imposes strict limits if the 55% threshold is exceeded. public debt in relation to GDP.
Domański, presenting the draft budget on Tuesday, emphasized that the proposal assumed a GDP growth of 3%. He added that public debt will not exceed the constitutional threshold of 60 percent by 2030. GDP. As reported on the website of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, state budget revenues in 2027 are expected to amount to PLN 696.4 billion, expenses - PLN 977.6 billion, and deficit - PLN 281.2 billion.
"Poverty and unemployment"
On Wednesday, PiS MPs Przemysław Czarnek and Jarosław Wieczorek presented leaflets with "Tusk's very simple five, the new program of the Civic Coalition." It results from the disastrous financial policy of Domański and Tusk and the increasingly worse prospects for public finances presented by the entire Ministry of Finance, Czarnek emphasized.
As he said, Tusk's new "five" will be a "radical tax increase" and "what results directly from Article 86 of the Public Finance Act": liquidation of social programs, no increase in public sector salaries, limiting the indexation of pensions only to the level of inflation and "stopping all state and local government investments, i.e. poverty and unemployment."
Wieczorek assessed that Poland was facing a "long-term crisis in public finances." In two years, these huge numbers plus these provisions (acts) will unfortunately mean that "Donald Tusk's new five" will come into force - he said. He said that PiS's task is to prevent this from happening. Donald Tusk must lose power next year, and this is the absolute minimum we must do, added Wieczorek.
PiS is preparing a convention
PiS MPs also announced Saturday's party economic convention in Warsaw - the Economy Congress - and the presentation of specific economic ideas of Law and Justice.
We will show how to get out of this valley of misery into which Tusk, Kosiniak-Kamysz, Mr. Domański, the worst in the history of Poland, and the entire government are pushing us, said Czarnek.
How should the budget be divided?
The Chancellery of the Prime Minister declares that next year the government will continue programs and benefits that are particularly important for households, including the following programs: Family 800+ - PLN 60.8 billion; Active Parent (so-called grandma's) – PLN 7 billion (PLN 1 billion more than in 2026); In-vitro – PLN 600 million; 13th and 14th pension – PLN 32.1 billion; support benefits for people with disabilities – PLN 12.6 billion.
The financing of a widow's pension is also taken into account, i.e. the possibility of receiving a survivor's pension and another pension benefit, e.g. a pension, together. The government also provided funds for the indexation of pension and disability benefits in the amount of approximately PLN 19 billion.
Additionally, funds were provided to increase the salaries of state budget employees and teachers at the level of 3%. The total cost of the salary increase and its derivatives is approximately PLN 7.8 billion.
The revenues of local governments related to participation in the PIT tax will increase from PLN 193.8 billion in 2026 to PLN 206.7 billion in 2027, i.e. by 6.6%.
Domański said on Tuesday that in accordance with the debt management strategy, net public debt will amount to 54.7%. in 2027, in 2028 - as he emphasized - there is a probability of exceeding the level of 57.4%. GDP, in 2029 it is to be 58.1 percent. GDP, and in 2030 – 57.3 percent GDP.
According to the Public Finance Act, if the state public debt exceeds 55%. GDP, then in the year following the year in which this ratio was announced, a budget without a deficit is adopted, or with such a level of difference in income and expenditure that will guarantee a decrease in the ratio of State Treasury debt to GDP in relation to the ratio announced for the year in which the excess occurred.
Restrictions will also apply to local governments, because communes, cities and voivodeships can practically only plan if these funds are allocated to the implementation of tasks co-financed from funds from the EU budget. In addition, the salaries of state budget employees will be frozen, the indexation of pensions and pensions may not exceed the increase in prices of consumer goods and services from the previous year before the budget year, and finally, a ban on granting new loans and credits from the state budget is introduced.
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