Poland's Sejm gives first reading to the bill ending the EUR 150 import VAT exemption

What changed in detail

The Polish government bill amending the VAT Act in connection with import declarations and the abolition of the EUR 150 customs-duty exemption — Sejm print 2838 — had its first reading at the Sejm’s 63rd sitting on 30 July 2026 and was referred to the Public Finance Committee and the Deregulation Committee. The bill has not been passed. The proof excerpt above is a raw JSON fragment from the Sejm’s own legislative-process API: stageName names the procedural stage reached (“first reading at a Sejm sitting”), date is when it happened, and sittingNum identifies the sitting.

This bill supersedes the earlier draft reported in issue 2026-W31 (Poland proposes to widen the export evidence accepted for the 0% VAT rate) — the Council of Ministers approved that draft on 21 July 2026, and druk 2838 is the bill it became. That draft covered several measures, the EUR 150 consignment treatment among them; no single official document states the identity outright, so the link between the two rests on the matching subject and the dates (Council of Ministers approval 21 July, bill entered the Sejm 23 July, first reading 30 July).

What it means

A first reading is a procedural milestone, not a rule change — nothing here should be built or configured. What is worth tracking is the direction: ending the EUR 150 exemption threshold for import VAT declarations would remove a low-value-consignment simplification that many importers currently rely on. The bill still has committee review and further readings ahead of it.