Support for companies provided by employment offices includes several support instruments. People running their own businesses can apply for a PLN 5,000 subsidy or additional payments to subsidize employees’ salaries. In turn, in the Social Insurance Institution, the entrepreneur will be able to receive a parking benefit in addition to the premium reduction.
Shield 9.0 for companies in practice
According to the amendment to the ordinance of April 16, there are several conditions for applying for aid under the April anti-crisis shield. To obtain support, a company must conduct a business activity marked with a specific PKD code as a type of predominant activity as of March 31, 2021. Assessment of belonging to a given industry, considered particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, will be made concerning the relatively recent past, and – thus – the aid will go to companies that actually conduct this type of activity in the current period. Also, the entrepreneur is obliged to prove a 40 % decline in revenues. We are talking here about income – from business, activity obtained – depending on the instrument – in one of the three, out of two or in the month preceding the month of applying in relation to the income obtained in the previous month or the corresponding month of the previous year, as well as in February 2020. or in September 2020.
List of PKD’s and the amounts of the subsidies in the source.