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Polish government punishes charitable givers [25]
Warsaw, Poland October 7, 2006.
The Polish Government discourages charity. Furthermore, the Polish Government punishes those who try to feed the poor.
By way of example, if you own a bakery in Poland and at the end of each day you have excess production, the Polish Government expects that you destroy that production and not give it to Poland's poor people or an organization such as a church charity.
You are expected to fill out a form that shows that you destroyed the excess production. If you do not destroy the excess production, you must pay the value added tax on that excess production.
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If in fact this is true, does this really cause people not to feed thpoor? I can't imagine how they can keep track of everything.