Government plans to quadruple tax on small alcohol bottles

The government has drafted a project to raise the ALK levy — a tax on alcohol in containers up to 300 ml — from the current 25 zloty to 100 zloty per liter of pure alcohol. Poland sells approximately 1.3 million such bottles daily, one in five of them to customers before 12:00. The project also includes changes to how revenue from this levy is distributed.