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The charity business can be very taxing
October 11, 2006

A Polish baker was forced to declare bankruptcy and close his business because the government was demanding 250 000 zloty (R630 000) in taxes on bread he donated to a soup kitchen, 24-hour news channel TVN24 reported.

Waldemar Gronowski gave the loaves to a Catholic charity that feeds about 100 people a day in the southwestern city of Legnica, the television channel reported.

But in terms of Polish law, excess production at bakeries must be destroyed at the end of each day, or incur a value-added tax levy.

This, seen as a discouragement to charitable giving, has led to churches reporting large numbers of anonymous gifts of foodstuff left in churches overnight, according to bloggers on http://www.polishforums.com.

A promise of assistance from Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski had not helped Gronowski's case, TVN24 reported.

The press office of Poland's finance ministry was not immediately available for comment. - Bloomberg

Note the Jewish author's name. This sort of thing sounds so Jewish that it's hard for me to imagine that, in the absence of Jewish influence, a White government might systematically tax charity and force the charitable impulse, strong in Whites, to find its only safe expression in illegal (tax-evading) donations. Pity this poor Polish baker: he got caught being nice to someone and forgot to pay off his government, so he had to be punished.

East European bakers and restauranteurs! Be careful which beggars you feed! Some of them might be secret policemen!

Jerry Abbott