Jerzy Martini

Practice Areas

Jerzy Martini is an expert in VAT and tax litigation. Licensed tax advisor with more than 20 years of professional experience gained in numerous professional projects and in legislative work on VAT at the Ministry of Finance and parliamentary committees.

Career

Poland's most experienced proxy (most cases in total, most won cases) in proceedings before the Court of Justice of the EU in Luxembourg (including the first Polish case in CJEU C-313/05 Brzezinski and important for the car market in Poland case C-414/07 Magoora).

He is a chairman of the VAT team of the Tax Council (Rada Podatkowa) at the Lewiatan Confederation (Konfederacja Lewiatan) - the most influential Polish business organisation representing employers' interests in Poland and in the EU, as well as Lewiatan’s representative in VAT Policy Working Group of BusinessEurope.

Jerzy was actively involved in combating VAT fraud in Poland as a member of Tax Law Consultation Council for the Minister of Finance.

Jerzy has been recommended as a tax law specialist by leading Polish tax advisors’ rankings (organized by Dziennik Gazeta Prawna and Rzeczpospolita) in wich he was repeatedly assessed as the best or one of the best tax advisors in the "VAT" and "Litigation" categories. In Rzeczpospolita ranking, he was recognized eight times as the best VAT specialist in Poland.

Since 2012, Martini has been a co-founder and partner in MartiniTAX.

Publications

The editor and co-author of “The commentary to the VAT Directive 2006/112", publisher Unimex.

The author of "The commentary to the ECJ VAT case law", publisher C.H.Beck.

The editor and co-author of "Commentary to the VAT Act", publisher C.H.Beck.

Jerzy publishes tax comments and articles in specialized journals, business press and books.