Jan Sarnowski
Expert in
German and Polish tax and corporate law, tax advisor, academic teacher. After years of
working in legal and tax compliance for international law firms in Berlin and
Warsaw, 2016 – 2018 served as advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland,
responsible for developing legislative, administrative and IT tools for
improving the efficiency of the tax collection and enforcement system.
Coordinated
the implementation of solutions which resulted in the significant growth of
Polish VAT and CIT revenues. 2018-2019
Deputy Director of the Income Tax Department and Head of the Legal
Comparatistics Division in the Poland’s Ministry of Finance. In the first year
of his service succeeded to deliver more than 120 comparative research studies
on the contemporary issues of international and domestic taxation.
Author of
scientific papers on fair taxation, VAT, CIT, PIT and local taxes. Since 2019
research fellow of the Polish Economic Institute, co-author and scientific
editor of 17 policy papers and reports. Co-founder and deputy director of the
GovTech Polska Programme, Poland’s largest initiative aimed at bringing the
digital revolution to the Public Sector.
In October
2019 appointed Minister’s Plenipotentiary for International VAT Cooperation. Since November 2019 serves as Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Finance.