On 11 August 2017, Poland's Ministry of Finance published a draft amendment to the Retail Sales Tax Act that would suspend the effective date of the tax to 1 January 2019. The tax was introduced in September 2016 with progressive rates of up to 1.4% on monthly turnover. However, its effective date was suspended to 1 January 2018 due to a European Commission State aid investigation, which ultimately found that the tax was in violation of EU State Aid rules because its progressive nature would…