Poland's Finance Minister seeks to tax Airbnb on Polish revenues

In an interview to the Financial Times on Monday, Polish Finance Minister Tadeusz Koscinski said Airbnb should pay tax on revenues earned in Poland. Koscinski said he was aiming to ensure Poles who rent out their flats via sites such as Airbnb pay the applicable taxes and that gathering data on this would give the authorities an insight into how much services such as Airbnb were making in Poland. "If we're going to make sure that anyone who rents out their flats in the sharing economy pays their fair share of tax, then the people they're paying - Airbnb - are part of the value chain and should be paying as well," Koscinski said.