News / Only 1 in 3 firms in Poland pays income taxes [20]

Could you provide some sort of evidence, rather than an anonymous source, because the claim is obviously ********

Income taxes are paid on wages, you are talking about Corporation tax, paid on profit - if any. I would not be surprising to hear many companies don't make a profit in Poland.

But small companies (95%+) of companies are very unlikely to have overseas business. The article says nothing about the companies size.


So you claim that 73% of Polish companies are 'big corporations'? there are about 14million companies in Poland.

How can 10 million or so be fiddling the tax man?

Then again, what you expect as this 'fact' comes from some secret pal, who is apparently trust worthy, wink wink.


So the 23% VAT isn't enough? Your solution - tax companies more. Friggin communists.

This isn't some sort of cack-handed, innumerate attack on the current government is it??

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [413]


And Poland.
And the UK.


I don't.

I think you are the top poster on here, 100% on topic. I want to talk and hear about Poland, not listen to rants and raves about other peoples demons

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [413]


Well .... as interesting as his post was, virtually everything he said has been disagree by various posters.

News / Poland's PiS = suspicion & fear? [70]


Here you go again, do you even understand what a lie is? Its deliberate distortion of the truth.

Given that you have no evidence whatsoever that what he says is untrue, it cannot possibly be a lie.

Law / Opening a Polish Bank Account by a foreigner in Poland. Recommendations. [299]


There is a good reason for this. Current accounts have to be paid back on demand, as such they are a liability as they don't add to the fractional lending ability of the bank and have costs associated.


Yes, I did this.

Polonia / Protect Andrei Poczobut (a journalist) against prosecution by the Belarusian dictatorship [49]

You think?

As an English speaker I fully understood the message which is far more important that than the spelling or syntax.

Real Estate / Can a German Citizen buy a piece of Land to build house in Poland? [14]


Oops.


Is it really? In other countries (UK etc) farms were forcibly collectivised, whereas Poles have access to food outside of industralised food production.

Sure, Poland could export more food if it had bigger farms, but I think Poles are attached to land and farming. Its almost impossible to buy a farm in the UK, you need a £million.

On the other hand, bigger farms would increase its exports by 100's of billions of Euro's per year. I suspect that farms will get bigger, all my neighbours are elderly and their children don't want to farm.

Real Estate / Can a German Citizen buy a piece of Land to build house in Poland? [14]

I thought its was 4000m2 maximum.

50,000m2 is 10ha, 25acres which is a substantial farm.

Your girlfriend can own farmland, however. Also, you can apply for a permit for farm land as an EU citizen which will slow the process down but given the slow market should not make any difference.

In 2016 buying farmland in Poland will be open to all EU citizens.

So, Larry, you should not have any problem as its well below the area limit.

History / Poland's undying debt to Polonia [76]


Agreed, I have no way of knowing the exact figure.


No, monthly.


Well, look at this way, 19% is pretty low - even without a tax free element.

History / Poland's undying debt to Polonia [76]


I'm paying 5K, I assume Harry is earning 35k per month or he is paying personal tax at 38%.

History / Poland's undying debt to Polonia [76]


This is true, today about 4% vote communist. This group, numbering a few hundred thousand, were about to control Poland, with the ten million strong Soviet Union occupation army, killing any opposition for the twenty years after the war. After that, the message sunk in, minus a few minor uprisings.

History / Poland's undying debt to Polonia [76]


Thats bullshit.

History / Poland's undying debt to Polonia [76]


I'll say it again. Only 30 thousand people voted of PiS, they don't represent American Polonia any more than they represent Poland.

History / Poland's undying debt to Polonia [76]

Thet 70% was from the total of 40,000 votes, about 30,000 voters.

So 3% of Polonia, makes you a true Bolshevik doesn't it? trying to tell millions of Poles what they should do.

Love / How do guys from Poland flirt? [47]


I think he may have exaggerated a little.

Food / Are there any Polish wines worth purchasing? [65]


Cold winters don't prohibit making wine. The problem in Poland is the taxation system makes it almost impossible to do so. I went to a wine tasting and some of the wines weren't bad, they could not sell them however are the government makes it difficult.

News / Does Polish hotel have right to turn down Americans and Israelis? [73]


This is thread is about discrimination against non EU customers. Your post is off topic, although its correct.


He's now world famous for the loss of 0% of his customers. In all probability he got no US or Israeli customers before.


Its not zealotry to prefer to not spend time with other people, depending or race, age or whatever. I'd say its normal. I think I'd be more than happy not to spend time with British people in a shared Chalet while on a skiing holiday for instance. My friends, sure but random twats you have to speak to every day for a week, preferably not.

News / Does Polish hotel have right to turn down Americans and Israelis? [73]


Not really, just a basic law going back hundreds of years. When you walk in a shop on visit an online shop the shopkeeper can refuse to sell goods to you at the displayed price. This is why websites that make pricing errors don't have to supply the goods at that price.

If you arrive at a place WITHOUT a booking you have no right, or expectation, to be accommodated in any case. Even if you did have a booking the 'rights' you had would be limited and dependent on - say - the credit card agreement the Hotelier signed, not the 'booking/deposit'.

Anyway, a hotel owner could simply refuse to accept booking dependent on the identity of the person, which he is given as part of the booking process. Blocking countries from accessing a website is easy to do (I blocked China for instance)


The US/Israel are not EU citizens, so they have the same rights as EU citizens do in the the USA, ie on the same level as dogs.


Right, because Poles are given free access to the US and treated the same as US citizens..


And this is one hotel owner but you are threatening the whole of Poland with a boycott?

News / Does Polish hotel have right to turn down Americans and Israelis? [73]

A hotel owner or shopkeeper can refuse service or refuse to accommodate someone. Equally any price can be charged and its can vary person to person.

Anything you see is offered at a price - the shopkeeper does not have to sell it to you. This is a basic concept in law, its an offer.

However, explicitly stating that certain people will not be served is discrimination and illegal.

The hotel should not of publically stated he wouldn't accept Yanks and Israelis, he should have just excluded them privately.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]


Its a very cheap place to live if you go there with no connections. So working for nothing would be possible if you had a income of a couple of thousand pounds per year from another source. It would be clsoe to what you are asking other to do to match your saintly contribution.


You think cleaning some old guys arse is a better contribution to Poland than employing 20 people or investing a million Zloty's in a business?

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]


Thats nothing more than posturing on your part. Besides doing volunteer work for nothing is no where are helpful as bringing jobs, investment, and cash to the country.


Indeed, and Harry's 'good deeds' were done two decades ago when it was far easier and cheaper to do so. His 'sacrifice' has given him a mortgage free home.

Would either of these to give up everything they have now and work unpaid in Zimbabwe, today ? somehow I doubt it.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]


What an amazingly vile comment.

If you want to stoop that low, you won't mind me pointing out that you would have been one of Stalins Little Killers.

Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]


My thoughts exactly.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]

No, bullshit. In no way is it limited to the British and you missed my point - they are arn't even British but you don't understand that.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]


Not true, don't assume that anyone who speaks English is British. This site is full of people with an agenda, thats true, but where they are from and their motivation is not easy to determine.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]



Obviously he should avoid Warsaw and any shithole small towns.

If he has a independent income and can work from home, wherever he wants to be, then yes, move to Poland. I did it, earning about 22K per month where everything is cheap is great. I have not regretted moving to Poland in the 3 years I've been here, not for one a minute.

nomen, do it.

You won't suffer the problems most of these whiners do if you don't have to depend on a Polish income. Don't bother with Warsaw, Krakow is cheaper and obviously nicer.

If nothing else, it would be a experience.

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]

A remarkable number of people speak English in Krakow, got to France and Spain and its far worse. Nothing wrong with that, expecting peopel to speak English is ridiculous.

Road signs are always in English in Europe - they are standardised.


Agree with all of those.
1. Lack of roads due to poverty. 2. At least they are very clean. 3. Agreed, but its getting better.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]

Is this thread going to get back on topic or is it going to continue with this irrelevant garbage?

Travel / What can Poland do to attract more tourists? Llamas farm? [71]


Give me 500Billion euro and they will be sorted. Easy, eh?

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]


So why did you bring this up after tell me to stick to topic? Oh, I know - to change the subject.