Mechanizm podzielonej płatności w podatku od towarów i usług a polityka rachunkowości jednostek samorządu terytorialnego

The mechanism of ‘split payment’ was introduced specifically to counteract abuse of, and tax fraud. As a result of the introduction of new regulations, said regulations also pertain to local governmental units since they are VAT taxpayers. The purpose of the article is to present new institutions of public laws required in Poland’s legal structures with the obligations of recording VAT by local authorities and consequences of the adoption by local government units of individual solutions in the maintenance of one or more VAT accounts. The applied research methods include the analysis of law statutes and literature review and inference.As a result of the conducted research, it was found that local government units being a centralized and registered active VAT taxpayer should go in the direction of using in their accounting policy a variant with multiple VAT accounts, which will improve the process of recording split payments in the body and organizational units.