Jan Sarnowski Moves to Private Practice by Joining B2RLaw as Head of Tax Practice

Former KUKE CFO Jan Sarnowski has joined B2RLaw as the new Head of Tax Practice.

Before joining B2RLaw, Sarnowski was KUKE’s CFO between 2022 and 2023. Earlier, he was with the Ministry of Finance of Poland, first as an Advisor to the Minister between 2016 and 2018, then as the Head of Legal Comparatistics Division and the Deputy Director, Income Tax Department between 2018 and 2019, and finally as the Undersecretary of State and Plenipotentiary for International VAT Cooperation between 2019 and 2022.

According to B2RLaw, Sarnowski is “an experienced expert with many years of experience in legal and tax handling of investment processes and cross-border transactions. As Deputy Minister of Finance in charge of the tax legislation division, he was responsible for the implementation of a number of preferences for entrepreneurs operating in the manufacturing industry and new technologies. As Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Finance for International Cooperation on VAT, he was responsible for the development of technological cooperation with the administrations of developing countries. The result of his work was that Poland signed the first agreements on automatic exchange of information in the field of VAT.”

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