The General Court of the European Union annulled, on Thursday 16 May, the European Commission's decisions qualifying the Polish progressive tax on the retail sector as illegal State aid (Joined Cases T-836/16 and T-624/17).
Poland contested the Commission's decision that the Polish progressive tax based on the turnover of large companies in the retail sector constitutes a selective measure and therefore amounts to illegal State aid (see EUROPE B11627A4).
The tax was based on the turnover...