From today's Times newspaper:
Tax break to halt young brain drain
Poland has abolished income tax for more than two million young people in an attempt to reverse its "brain drain" and lure graduates back from overseas.
Nearly 1.7 million Poles, including 580,000 with degrees, have found work in other European countries, leaving the mother country with an acute shortage of skilled labour, in particular scientists, doctors and IT specialists.
Mateusz Morawiecki, 51, the prime minister, told parliament: "We have to draw the young people back. Over the past 30 years Poland has asked too much of its young people and has not done enough to help them. Employers were not ready to raise salaries for their young workers, so we will do it through scrapping their income tax".
As of today, Poles under the age of 26 earning up to 85,500 zlotys (£18,200) a year will be exempted from the 18 per cent basic rate of tax.
The reform makes good on one of the central pledges made to voters by Mr. Morawiecki's arch-conservative Law and Justice Party before the European parliamentary elections in May.
Poland's average annual income per person is about £5500, compared with £15,500 across the EU as a whole. Those leaving are overwhelmingly the young: the country's median age has risen from 36 in 2000 to 41 last year.
The UK is home to the largest chunk of the Polish diaspora at 764,000.