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The Financial Gap of the National Health Fund (NFZ) Could Reach a Quarter of a Trillion PLN, Threatening Public Finance Stability

24.02.2025

Changes in Health Spending Rules to Take Effect in 2026 New regulations set to take effect next year could fundamentally reshape the way healthcare spending is structured.. The Fiscal…

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Up to 80% of Contracts Hidden from Citizens? New survey by IFP

15.01.2025

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Download the surveyUp to 80% of Contracts Hidden from Citizens? The original vision of the long-awaited Central Register of Contracts (CRC), intended to serve as a tool for ordinary citizens…

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Survey on transparency of public finances at Campus – the Future of Poland 2024

09.09.2024

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See the gallery from CampusThis year’s Campus – the Future of Poland 2024 is in the books. The Institute of Public Finance was present in Olsztyn as a content partner…

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Designing an Independent Fiscal Institution for Poland

28.06.2024

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Unlike common practices in other EU member states and despite being mandated by EU law, Poland still lacks a fully-fledged Independent Fiscal Institution. IFIs are impartial, expert bodies that help…

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Polish National Health Fund’s budget gap: may be short of 159 billion zlotys over the next three years

26.06.2024

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The health care system in 2025-2027 requires funding of between PLN 92.5 billion and PLN 158.9 billion, the authors of the report “The financing gap in the health care system…

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IFP’s Open Scientific Symposium #219Constitution: How to restore the rule of law in public finance

11.06.2024

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The current state of the rule of law in the area of public finance and the necessary legal standards for planning and controlling state expenditures, taking into account the constitutional…

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Register of agreements- an essential component of an open local government budget: the Institute of Public Finance at the Local Government Finance Congress

12.05.2024

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Reform of the system of local government finance changes in taxes, investments, and budget management. The fourth edition of Local Trends – Local Government Finance Congress will begin tomorrow in…

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Higher prices, longer waiting times – economists have counted the effects of the law change on the cab market

18.04.2024

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Cab transport prices will increase by about 20%, as will waiting times. This will be the result of a change in the law, which will overnight take away the right…

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Political preference in distributing subsidies to local governments? IFP’s report confirms scale of inequality

04.04.2024

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Between 2019 and 2023, municipalities governed by United Right governors received almost 2.35 times more in government subsidies than municipalities governed by the parliamentary opposition. Most of these subsidies came…

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“Seeds of discord” – an expert report on the real causes of the crisis in agriculture

19.03.2024

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Neither grain from Ukraine nor the European Green Deal are the cause of low grain purchase prices in Poland. So neither the embargo nor the abandonment of pro-ecological measures will…

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“Open Budget of Local Government”, a panel organized by IFP at the 9th European Congress of Local Governments in Mikolajki!

16.03.2024

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The Institute of Public Finance, which was an institutional partner of this year’s Local Government Congress in Mikolajki, organized the panel “Open Budget of Local Government.” In the panel, experts…

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Every third zloty of public money is spent in local governments. Do we know enough about their budgets?

02.03.2024

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The administrative reform of 1999, by transferring part of the power to local government, entrusted it with a significant part of public funds to finance: schools, hospitals, roads and other…

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Professor Marek Belka joins IFP’s Program Council

11.01.2024

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Professor Marek Belka – former Prime Minister of Poland, Minister of Finance, president of the National Bank of Poland and an expert of international institutions – has joined the Program…

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The Real Budget of Poland for 2024 – Summary

31.10.2023

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On October 31, the report “The Real Budget of Poland for 2024: Necessary Amendments to Increase Transparency to the Budget Law for 2024. Basic Figures” was published. The authors of…

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Budapest Corruption Research Center begins cooperation with Institute of Public Finance

27.10.2023

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Joint research and publications, exchange of experiences and advocating integrity and transparency in the management of public funds at every level of government are the main goals of the cooperation…

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When European taxpayers’ money finances the erosion of democracy

10.10.2023

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In a report published today, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) exposes a pattern of systemic abuse of public funds by Polish authorities. These funds include European Union (EU)…

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Sławomir Dudek: the prime minister created a parallel budget – a spending paradise

18.07.2023

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The prime minister has drawn hundreds of billions of zlotys from the constitutional budget into some parallel budget, because there he can spend public money on a notebook or even…

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For the first time in history, the Supreme Audit Office did not express a positive opinion on the discharge for the government

15.06.2023

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Every year, the Supreme Audit Office (NIK) prepares for the Sejm (the lower chamber of the Polish Parliament) a comprehensive “Analysis of the State Budget Execution and Monetary Policy Assumptions”.…

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Thursday Forum at Warsaw School of Economics

23.05.2023

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What is the condition of public finances? What do macroeconomic indicators say about the situation of the Polish economy? Are we already facing a recession? How long will inflation last?…

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Lies on VAT are back. Contrary to propaganda, Poland VAT faces a hard landing

09.03.2023

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VAT revenues decreased in January 2023 by over 21%. At the turn of the year, they changed strangely. It is questionable whether VAT returns were deliberately manipulated to artificially increase…

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IFP at the European Congress of Local Governments

06.03.2023

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“Local government finances in the wake of the economic crisis” – this was the motto of the European Congress of Local Governments in Mikołajki, which was attended by President and…

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On public debt at the Warsaw School of Economics’ conference

01.03.2023

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Problems caused by the expansionary fiscal policy in Poland, the transparency of public finances and the scope of application of fiscal regulations – these were the main topics of the…

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How is inflation impoverishing Poles? Debate and the presentation of the report

28.02.2023

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The debate at Świetlica Wolności was accompanied by the presentation of the report of Warsaw Enterprize Intitue that shows which social groups were most affected by the inflation. The following…