The Public Revenue Office (UJP) has announced that the process of generating annual tax returns is finished - 862,896 pre-filled returns have been sent to citizens for the income earned in 2025. The deadline for review - 31 May 2026.

What matters is what doesn't make the press release. „Pre-filled" doesn't mean „correct." UJP composes the returns based on data coming from employers, banks and other institutions. A mistake in any single source - and the return can show a wrong amount, a wrong income category, or a missed additional liability. And responsibility for accuracy falls on the citizen, not on UJP.

What should you check? First - the total declared income. Second - all additional incomes (honoraria, rentals, dividends, foreign earnings) that may not have made it into the system. Third - the applied exemptions and deductions. And finally - whether there's a high amount to pay that wasn't expected.

For a citizen who doesn't react by 31 May, the return is considered accepted. If there's a mistake - correcting it after that date is harder, requires administrative procedures and possibly fines. The question UJP doesn't ask out loud is - how many ordinary citizens really know how to read their own return? That you receive 30 pages of codes on MK-B4 paper isn't „a service" - it's a test of the state's financial literacy. And in that test, many of us pay more than we should - not because we're afraid, but because we don't understand what we're looking at.