Originally of July 2025, 29,044 corporations owned by Ukrainians had been recorded within the Polish Nationwide Court docket Register. Of this quantity, 13,014 corporations had been opened after February 2022, i.e. after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which resulted in round a million refugees from Ukraine settling in Poland.
Gremi Private’s analytical centre highlights that roughly 6% of all new corporations registered in Poland within the final 3.5 years are owned by Ukrainians, and the full capital of corporations established after the outbreak of battle exceeds PLN 533 million (roughly €125 million).
In 2024, Ukrainian entrepreneurs and workers paid virtually PLN 1.65 billion (€385 million) to the Polish funds within the type of earnings and company earnings taxes.
“These figures present that Ukrainians in Poland are strengthening the economic system and positively influencing its growth by way of their substantial contribution within the type of taxes, but additionally each day consumption. And so they do not take work away, they offer it to others, which additionally impacts the standard of providers and enterprise competitors,” mentioned Damian Guzman, Deputy CEO of Gremi Private.
“After all, when doing enterprise in Poland, they need to adapt to the foundations of our economic system and enterprise and, in the event that they wish to develop additional, they need to achieve this on the premise of the rules prevailing right here and within the European Union. And this can be a problem for a few of them, as doing enterprise in Ukraine differs in lots of ‘points’ from doing enterprise in Poland.”
Over 100,000 Ukrainian corporations in Poland
However establishing an organization is just not the most well-liked means Ukrainians are doing enterprise in Poland. In accordance with the Polish Financial Institute, from the start of 2022 to April 2025, Ukrainian residents established 88,500 sole proprietorships (JDG)—a simplified method to be self-employed in Poland—together with greater than 33,000 final 12 months.
Which means that, together with corporations, greater than 100,000 Ukrainian companies have been established in Poland because the outbreak of the battle. At present, each tenth JDG established in Poland is a Ukrainian enterprise, and among the many enterprise actions registered by foreigners, Ukrainian companies account for 85%.
“The sectoral construction of registered enterprise actions signifies the dominance of building, IT and repair exercise corporations. These three sectors account for greater than half of all established corporations,” Dr Katarzyna Dębkowska, head of the Financial Foresight Staff on the Polish Institue of Economics (PIE) advised Euronews.**
She identified that Ukrainian building corporations are primarily engaged in ending actions, IT corporations specialize in programming, and over 80% of service actions are hairdressing and wonder corporations.
Why achieve this many Ukrainians determine to open a enterprise in Poland?
In accordance with Dr Dębkowska, there are three most important causes. Firstly, it’s one of the best ways for them to work in keeping with their competences, as a result of, in keeping with analysis, Ukrainians employed in Poland on a everlasting foundation or on a contract foundation often get a place beneath their competences.
The second purpose is accounting and taxation points—Polish corporations usually require JDG standing from their workers. The third purpose is the prospects associated to the European Union market—registering an organization in Poland provides entry to all the EU market.
Immigrants assist the economic system
Then again, many Ukrainian entities function very domestically. “Rising Ukrainian companies usually supply services or products primarily geared toward Ukrainian residents dwelling in Poland, e.g. magnificence institutions, catering, academic items,” Dębkowska mentioned.
Dębkowska additionally emphasised that corporations run by Ukrainian residents are in keeping with the wants of the Polish economic system and partially fill the gaps within the labour market, as evidenced by the share of building, ICT or transport and logistics corporations.
“The entrepreneurship of immigrants, together with Ukrainian residents, helps financial growth, innovation and aggressive benefits. Immigrants create jobs, particularly in their very own communities, and fill market niches. By means of transnational connections, there is a chance to internationalise corporations and switch data. Extremely expert immigrants speed up technological growth and enhance the variety of patents,” Dr Katarzyna Dębkowska concluded.