In the famous Theses on Local Government, a political fiction describing the project of municipal rebellion in Poland, they demanded that local governments “have complete legal, organizational, OWNERSHIP and FINANCIAL independence in the performance of their own functions.” They mentioned “legal and financial support” or “legal and financial” instruments that the municipal authorities owed to their country’s government.
Although their municipalities’ own revenues from the personal tax share had grown in recent years, A. Dulkiewicz, the mayor of Gdańsk, and J. Karnowski, the president of Sopot and currently a member of parliament, lamented their loss. In the case of Gdańsk, this decline looked surprisingly optimistic: instead of PLN 873 million in 2018, the municipality on the Motława River already had PLN 1.070 billion in revenues from this title in 2022.
When the Sejm voted to increase the tax-free amount to PLN 30,000. zloty, the public was threatened by the municipal financial collapse, general inefficiency and even the darkening of the streets.
In the meantime it all went in the trashwhen PO announced 100 of its demands, which, in addition to several carefully described revenge plans, also included a financial attraction for all PIT payers, who had already been placed in position 4 of D. Tusk’s political promises:
“We will increase the tax-free amount – from PLN 30,000. PLN to PLN 60 thousand PLN, in the case of taxpayers who pay according to the tax scale, including entrepreneurs and pensioners.
They remain silent when they should be on strike and shout, “F…. AFTER”.
This project means robbery of municipal finances. Calculated quite loosely, D. Tusk’s postulate means that 30,000 PLN of each taxpayer will be removed from the tax jurisdiction of the tax authorities. According to the applicable tax rate: 1st threshold up to PLN 120,000. PLN of income per year – that is 12%. i.e. approximately PLN 3,600 in tribute.
The municipality of Gdańsk, but also Łódź, Warsaw and Sopot are entitled to 38.46 percent. this amount plus another 10.25% as poviats. By encouraging their taxpayer-employers to invest in the financial potential of local governments, local governments emphasize this aspect of common prosperity, because half of this amount – PLN 1,800 – goes to the municipal budget.
By flirting with voters with a tax incentive worth PLN 30,000. PLN per year D. Tusk, Izabela Leszczyna and the rest of these political Pharisees attack the local government’s call “Yes – for Poland”, although they do not preach this fraud.
If he pays tax in Gdańsk on his individual income of about PLN 350,000. citizens, and in small Sopot about 25 thousand, that is I’m afraid to count the loss of incomethat the liberal-left popular regime wants to apply to Polish municipalities, its own voters and those of other voters. It is strange that A. Dulkiewicz, R. Trzaskowski, H. Zdanowska and T. Truskolaski are not yet shouting about the colonization of municipalities by the state – whether they protest against the policy as the Union of Polish Metropolises or as the Union of Cities and Municipalities that MP Jacek Karnowski should introduce.
Pursuant to art. 286 of the Criminal Code, anyone who deceives someone to obtain financial advantage or takes advantage of someone’s “inability to properly understand the action taken” is criminally liable.
By convincing voters to use their voting rights for themselves, did PO knowingly mislead many citizens and initiate behavior that led to an unfavorable divestiture of municipal properties?
By not introducing a new tax exemption threshold, for example due to violent uprisings of local government officials, PO directly commits an offense as described in Article 286 of the Criminal Code. It offered goods for which, as we hear today, it has no intention of making its political program available to buyers…
The truth in politics is nonsense. Donald Tusk’s promises are only binding if he makes them to Ursula von der Leyen.
Only the mob would think otherwise, right?
The column was also published on the website Wybrzeże24.pl
Source: wPolityce