We are extremely pleased to announce that trainee attorney-at-law Weronika Wątor-Krzyżanowska has obtained a doctoral degree in social sciences in the discipline of legal sciences by defending her doctoral dissertation entitled “Unilateral settlements and declarations in the Strasbourg system of human rights protection after the entry into force of Protocol 14 with particular reference to Poland” on 26 September 2022. The dissertation was written under the supervision of Dr Michał Kowalski, Prof. UJ.

We would like to inform that Aleksandra Kossowska, attorney at law, has begun a new stage of cooperation with KKPW as an associate attorney.

We are pleased to have recruited a highly qualified attorney at law with extensive experience in real estate and administrative proceedings. We wish Ms. Kossowska good luck in her new role!

Dear Sir or Madam,

In the face of an epidemic threat, out of concern for safety of our employees and Clients, KKPW Law Firm implemented a remote system of work from 16^th march 2020 until further notice which means that:

• our lawyers perform their professional duties outside the office at their homes;
• lawyers remain available for our Clients at least from 9:00 to 17:00 (telephone, e-mail and other means of remote communication) unless otherwise is stated in the arrangements with our Clients (for example remote duties for Clients in other hours)
• KKPW Law Firm’s offices are inaccessible for Clients; only administrative personnel is present on duty in offices for continuity of operations of our Law Firm like mail services (receiving and sending)

We would like to insure that we implemented necessary changes in organization of our work thanks to which we provide our Clients legal aid in appropriate standard and scope and we would like to encourage all our Clients to use remote forms of contact with our lawyers.

We kindly apologize for any inconveniences and we count on Your understanding.

KKPW Partners

November 2019 was the time of the biggest reform of the Civil Procedure Code in many years. Although some of the changes came into force earlier, it was on 7 November that most of the amended regulations finally came into force. The most important objective of the introduced reforms is to improve civil procedure by shortening the duration of court proceedings. The main changes concern the principles of service of pleadings – the so-called fiction of service has been abandoned; jurisdiction has been determined; decisions have been issued – the rule is that they should be issued in secret. Instruments used to accelerate civil proceedings are also the so-called preparatory proceedings, during which judges should persuade the parties to conclude a settlement, as well as a simplified procedure for dismissing plaintiffs who are obviously unfounded and those who do not contain a specific demand.

Continuing the fight against value added tax fraud and evasion, on 1 November 2019 the legislator introduced into the Polish tax system an obligation to apply the “split payment ” in designated economic areas, which until now was a voluntary choice of the taxpayer. The essence of the split payment mechanism is to split the payment for the goods or services due resulting from the VAT invoice received from the customer through the payment of VAT to a special VAT account set up for this purpose by a bank.

Not all transactions are covered by the obligatory mechanism of split payment, but only those related to goods and services, which have been enumerated in Appendix No. 15 to the VAT Act, including construction services. If the transaction is made by VAT taxpayers (entrepreneurs), its value exceeds PLN 15,000, and one of the items on the VAT invoice concerns sensitive goods or services, the entities participating in the transaction are obliged to apply the split payment mechanism. In such a case, the seller is obliged to identify the transaction and place the annotation “split payment” on the VAT invoice and the buyer is obliged to make the split payment according to the instructions provided by the bank.

Violation of the newly introduced provisions is subject to a penalty of an additional tax liability equal to 30% of the VAT value resulting from such an invoice (only in respect of items covered by the split payment), exclusion of the possibility to include a given expense as a tax deductible cost and penal and fiscal liability (fine up to 720 daily rates).

More informations: https://www.facebook.com/InstytutAllerhanda/?fref=ts

We are pleased to inform that our firm has become a member of The Cracow Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The Cracow Chamber of Commerce and Industry over decades implementing strategies that are building a strong local government and providing comprehensive assistance to entrepreneurs in developing their business. It is one of the oldest organizations in Poland – operates since 1850.

More informations: http://www.iph.krakow.pl/

We are pleased to inform you that KKPW Law Office took 6th place in the Malopolska Region in Ranking of Law Firms 2015. 

http://prawo.rp.pl/artykul/793106,1200637-Ranking-kancelarii-prawniczych-2015–najwieksze-kancelarie-w-regionach.html