From July 1, tax offices will gain new powers. They are being introduced by the Polish Deal. Tax offices will be able to scrutinize the bank accounts of individuals. The matter is reported by the money.pl website, where we read that:

In one of the Polish Deal’s provisions, the word "suspect" was replaced with the term "individual." The Polish Bank Association describes this as a very dangerous loophole in the law. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Finance "reassures" that the tax office will scrutinize only the accounts of people who are already subject to verification activities.

The Polish Bank Association openly speaks of destroying the existing rules governing access to banking secrecy by authorities conducting proceedings. “Even a prosecutor in criminal proceedings does not have access to information covered by banking secrecy at an earlier stage—that is, during preparatory proceedings, when no one has been formally charged with specific offenses,” says Tadeusz Białek, president of the Polish Bank Association.

The amendment easing the tax office’s access to individuals’ accounts was passed without difficulty, among numerous other amendments. Until now, at the stage when criminal proceedings were initiated concerning a case rather than against a person—when there was not yet a specific suspect—the tax office could not ask a bank to provide information covered by banking secrecy.

Now this will change: the head of a tax office will be able, during preparatory proceedings—before charges are brought—to ask a bank for banking information about a particular person. This limits citizens’ privacy protections in favor of expanded powers for the tax office.

The tax office will be able to obtain information about, among other things: bank accounts, powers of attorney, securities, loan agreements, loans, shares, bonds, safe-deposit-box agreements...

Officials from the Ministry of Finance reassure the public that the changes do not mean that banking information about an individual may be requested in every case. Such a request will be possible when “the request is made in connection with preparatory proceedings already initiated or explanatory activities relating, respectively, to an offense or misdemeanor, or a fiscal offense or fiscal misdemeanor.”

You can read more about this on the money.pl