Environmental exploitation fees

Check whether your operations require you to pay environmental fees

Environmental exploitation fees

Environmental exploitation fees are a tax obligation imposed on legal and natural persons exploiting the environment. The duty to prepare a report summarizing the nature of environmental impacts and to calculate the environmental fee rests on the enterprise. The fee for the calendar year is paid to the account of the province marshal’s office by 31 March of the following year.

When do you need it?

The subject of inspections by province environmental protection inspectors involving submission of annual reports and payment of environmental exploitation fees is primarily firms holding ISO 14001 certificates or integrated permits. A similar situation applies to all manufacturing firms with obligations to file reports with administrative offices. A similar situation applies to all manufacturing firms with obligations to file reports with administrative offices.

Entities obliged to file reports are also required to register in the online KOBiZE system, accessible to administrative authorities, which makes it much easier for officials to verify the need for a given enterprise to file reports.

Do I need it?

Even minor impact on the environment by a company carries tax and reporting obligations. If your business involves:

Emission of gases or particles from a boiler
Use of vehicles (including cars registered in the company name)
Manufacturing (in connection with technological processes)
Activities such as welding or painting
Intensive agriculture
Use of disinfectants (due to emission of alcohol)

there is a high probability that your business is subject to the obligation to pay environmental exploitation fees. The following are required to pay environmental exploitation fees:

1. Businesses: Polish businesses (natural persons, legal persons, or organizational units without legal personality vested with legal capacity under separate regulations, performing economic activity)
Foreign businesses (foreign persons performing economic activity abroad, or a Polish citizen performing economic activity abroad)
Persons conducting productive activity in agriculture involving the cultivation of crops, raising or maintaining livestock, gardening, vegetable gardening, forestry or inland fishing
Organizational units which are not business entities
Natural persons who are not businesses or farmers, but are exploiting the environment, insofar as their exploitation of the environment requires a permit.

KR Group services in practice

If we have just one passenger car registered to our business, do we still have to file a report and pay environmental exploitation fees?

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Non-compliance with the obligation to file timely reports on the scope and manner of exploitation of the environment can lead to liability for a petty offence on the part of the firm, resulting in imposition of additional fees and penalties.

Miłosz Saramak

Head of Marketing and Business Development

Our Offer

We analyse the situation of your firm for the need to file annual reports with information and data on exploitation of the environment, as well as the amount of fees due on this basis to be paid to the province marshal’s office.
We collect the data needed to calculate emissions connected with the operation of your business, calculate the amount of fees, and prepare annual reports.
We carry out your documentation at every stage of our cooperation, meeting mandatory deadlines and determining the amounts of fees to be paid to the province marshal’s account.