Ulga na B+R – ocena zmian w zakresie podatkowego wsparcia działalności innowacyjnej w Polsce
R&D relief: assessment of changes in tax support for innovation activity in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to show tax support instruments as a significant element of the innovation policy of the country and to analyze changes at the level of indirect support for innovation activity that took place in the Polish tax system as a result of replacing the relief on new technologies with a relief on research and development. The research methodology involves a simulation of capabilities to reduce the costs of innovation activity available to a typical enterprise in the case of the relief on new technologies and the new relief on research and development. Statistical data from the Central Statistical Office and legal provisions relating to both instruments of support serve as a source material. Based on the analysis of the literature, the significance of using tax instruments as part of innovation policy is justified. On the basis of data analysis, it should be stated that the relief on research and development is characterized by a higher level of indirect participation of the state in the general costs of innovation activity of enterprises than the relief on new technologies. Because of the increasing role of innovation in economic growth, the support of the private sector in creating innovation is becoming one of the most important elements of economic policy. Therefore, analysis and assessment of the functioning instruments of support and changes that occur in this field are important. The subject of the paper seems particularly up-to-date as numerous objections have been raised against the existing innovation support system in Poland and the dynamic changes in this regard.

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