USA, Canada / Can you BE Polish without SPEAKING Polish in the US? [256]


You only have to see the stigma attached to regional dialect and the shift towards a standard pronunciation of Polish to see this,

Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]


Marriage means responsibility - it doesn't necessarily mean monogamy. In so much of the world polygamy is perfectly normal.


Actually it is a contract that has a clause allowing dissolution.


No. For all your Catholic propagandising, you fail to understand that the Church not only allows annulment, but also divorce. You are a fundamentalist fanatic.

USA, Canada / Can you BE Polish without SPEAKING Polish in the US? [256]


The fact is that the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth finished ten generations ago and has no impact on anyone's identity today. Except perhaps fantasists'.


Twenty generations ago. Ditto.


Mad as a box of frogs.


Very true.


More of a caste. But then again, your 'knowledge' is at best third hand.

Poland is nothing to do do with what is or isn't 'indigenous' - it is a culture, united with and indivisible from a shared language.

Life / My experience on mobile phones in Poland [9]

I just paid a bit less than a thousand for a nearly new Nokia N8 in Qatar - even the cheapest 'smartish phones' were half that, new.

Life / My experience on mobile phones in Poland [9]


That's still very cheap and probably your best bet. Anything cheaper is stolen.

Life / Anyone know of an English-language translation of "Kapuściński Non-Fiction", yet? [18]

Read as much as possible and all that will just come.

USA, Canada / General differences between Poland and the USA? [184]

Tell him to keep a MacDonalds receipt in his pocket and use theirs.

Life / Do Polish Marlboros differ? [21]

That's true - and the law is EU wide, too, though people across Europe ask for lights. Also (in Poland too) the assistant in the shop isn't supposed to discuss the products with the customers. At Okęcie I've seen a lady in the duty-free shop apologise to a customer saying she can't talk about the brands.

Life / Anyone know of an English-language translation of "Kapuściński Non-Fiction", yet? [18]


I like Kapuscinski too, though as far as I know there isn't an English-language translation of the biography in the offing - most people who like his work and are interested enough to buy it read Polish.

USA, Canada / Can you BE Polish without SPEAKING Polish in the US? [256]


Exactly.


One problem is that whenever an 'indiginous people' are mentioned, someone else can always come along and mention whatever group preceded them. Right back to the Neanderthals. The earliest known residents of Mazowsze were Burgundian.

USA, Canada / General differences between Poland and the USA? [184]


Some say that central Poland has two seasons, some say it has six. I incline to the latter view. And przedwiosna (pre-spring) will start soon.


Exactly. The same rubbish almost everywhere nowadays, and stifles the post-communist evolution of Polish cheap restaurant food which isn't the best.


There must be more security guards per head in PL than almost anywhere else.

Law / Dying in Poland - Inheritance tax ? [62]


Because it is a tax issue.


Indeedy doody.


Understood in full and in detail.

And now, wait for it!


Hurrah!!!!! FINALLY, you've got it Monia. Keep up the good work! Next step is to admit you're a) wrong and b) lying.


Can't resist the insults can you. You should be banned from the forum.

Law / Dying in Poland - Inheritance tax ? [62]

That mirrors my experiences a few years ago.

News / Poland - Third World Country?? [300]


Don't say goodbye, just promise you'll never come back.

Though somehow I doubt they'd let you in.

Work / Teaching salary per hour, PhD in Architecture [28]


That's true. In some scientific subjects at Warsaw Technical University the PhD theses are written in English.

And I would think it is hard to find an architect in a big city under about 60 who doesn't speak at least reasonable English. Highly educated people under 35 almost always speak it.

Law / Dying in Poland - Inheritance tax ? [62]


I did, you didn't and your posts are unhelpful.


If anything, it is the other way round.


You can't stop yourself, can you Monia - turning a thread asking for advice into well - a źenada.

The OP would do well to look at my advice, look at Harry's advice and perhaps speak to one of the companies who deal with expat finance - Saltire is fairly well known in Warsaw though they are Independent Financial Advisers and I can't in all honesty recommend them. If the OP PMs me, I'll give him the website address of an accountant who is British/Polish, highly competent, not interested in selling you things and based in Warsaw.

Law / Dying in Poland - Inheritance tax ? [62]


Unfortunately for you (and your customers) as with so many things in Poland, what is on paper isn't always lived up to in reality.

I suspect it hasn't occurred to you that some of the posters here (including me) have actually been in this situation. And contacted a real tax specialist. I had the money transferred as my private assets (which by then they were) and that was that.

It's always worth asking (as the original poster has done) people who have been in this situation and sought proper and reliable advice instead of an internet 'lawyer' (who sometimes claims to be other things) and has plenty of time (never a good thing in the legal profession) to sit on the internet abusing people on fora in a frankly disturbing way:

Law / Dying in Poland - Inheritance tax ? [62]


Again you are wrong. This isn't income - it was income and has been taxed as such already in a jurisdiction where Polish law does not apply. After probate has been completed it is, I repeat, personal assets. Not income. And by the way, there is no VAT on either personal assets or inheritance.


No need, I can read Polish. And evidently better than you in this case. It is only an inheritance if it is declared as one - and since under English law it is no longer an inheritance after the disbursement is made, Polish law does not apply. There is no reason that the Urząd Skarbowy should know the original source of UK assets transferred from someone's own bank account. Do you think that whenever someone transfers money to buy a house or flat they have to prove the source of that money?


But what about the ones for your legal practice?

Law / Dying in Poland - Inheritance tax ? [62]


A particularly weak piece of backpedalling. The money isn't inherited. It was previously inherited and the process of probate finished in another country. That's the difference which you doin't seem to understand, Monia. If someone transfers money from their own account in the UK to their own account in Poland, it is their money and providing the source is legal, no inheritance has to be declared. Moving your personal savings from one part of the EU to another does not incur tax.

Get many repeat customers as a lawyer, do you, Monia?

Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]


Unfortunately. And not in every country.


It does happen. Often.

USA, Canada / Can you BE Polish without SPEAKING Polish in the US? [256]


The EU is sorting all this out at the moment.

Law / Dying in Poland - Inheritance tax ? [62]


But not much of one. And not an accountant either.

Estate tax has already been paid (or waived because the sum is below £325k). this means that it is his in full; it is his personal assets and no longer an inheritance.

Probate on the estate has already been completed, the money has already been inherited. Therefore he does not need to declare it as an inheritance because it no longer is one.

USA, Canada / Can you BE Polish without SPEAKING Polish in the US? [256]


She is compromised too - you've clearly missed the point. And she may well be of Vietnamese roots, but she sure as hell isn't Vietnamese any more than someone half way across the world who randomly happens to have Polish grandparents iisn't Polish. Unless they can communicate with the majority of the nation they can never be fully part of it.

USA, Canada / Can you BE Polish without SPEAKING Polish in the US? [256]

Except it isn't. In the case of Poland - one country, one language - language and identity are inextricable. Some foreigner with Polish antecedents can identify as Polish or indeed anything that takes their fancy, but without the language, they are compromised. A kid in Warsaw, fluent in Polish, but with Vietnamese parents is far more Polish that they are or without the language can ever be.

Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]


A thousand times better than staying together in a loveless and hate-filled 'marriage'.


Not as torn as the the loyalties with two parents playing one off against the other in a permanent state of depression and anger but stuck under the same roof.


Yes - and the answer is to end any situation that becomes toxic and move to a better and happer one.


Yes. Contraception and abortion certainly help, however not everyone is that sensible - some very young and ill-prepared people have kids. There is nothing new in this.


Anyone can learn - but as we all know, some never understand. Those people should just end their dead relationships before they harm the kids.

Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]

If a marriage dies, it should be buried. Better kids grow up in a healthy and happy but less traditional environment that grow up a daily witness to misery and end up with all the hang-ups that entails. Kids are far more likely to repeat their parents' mistakes than to learn from them.

Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]


So you'd prefer kids to be raised in a thoroughly topxic envirenment by two natural, married parents who hate each other and won't divorce due to social stigma of religious oppression? Unhealthy.


As above, so below ;-)

Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]


Really? Perhaps some proof instead of the usual meaningless misanthropy.

Love / Woman tells of escape after allegedly buried Kasprak and Borys, both Polish nationals [25]

The court has now sentenced the guy.


telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9013503/Man-who-buried-girlfriend-alive-jailed-for-20-years.html

Law / Anyone else often buy Play.pl "Online na Karte"? I'm not sure if I have a problem... [5]


You don't. You can register it wherever you're staying, even if you're in a hotel, and using your passport number.


This is the obvious thing to do.