Poland has abolished income tax for more than two million young people in a drastic attempt to reverse its “brain drain” and tempt graduates back from overseas. Nearly 1.7 million Poles, including 580,000 with university degrees, have found work in European countries such as Britain, Germany and Sweden, leaving the mother country with an acute shortage of skilled labour, in particular scientists, doctors and IT specialists. Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, told parliament: “It’s a gigantic loss. 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
Poland 's prime minister , Mateusz Morawiecki , has scrapped the country 's 18 % income tax rate for those earning less than PLN85,500 ( $ 22,017 ) a year to lure back skilled workers . Almost 1.7 million Poles have emigrated to countries including the UK , France and Germany , resulting in an acute lack of lawyers , doctors and IT specialists . Morawiecki 's decision fulfils a key pledge before the general election in November .