{"id":192609,"date":"2019-08-04T07:45:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T07:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192609"},"modified":"2019-08-06T07:17:18","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T07:17:18","slug":"poland-scraps-income-tax-for-under-26s-to-encourage-young-to-stay-home-emigrants-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=192609","title":{"rendered":"Poland Scraps Income Tax for Under-26s to Encourage Young to Stay Home, Emigrants to Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Jack Montgomery \u2013 Breibart Aug 2, 2019<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Poland is abolishing income tax for millions of young people, in order to discourage \u201cbrain drain\u201d and encourage young emigrants who have abandoned the country for other EU member-states under the Free Movement migration regime to come home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Almost two million Poles have left their home country since 2004, leaving largely for the United Kingdom, followed by Germany, including almost 600,000 university graduates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cIt\u2019s a gigantic loss. We have to draw the young people back,\u201d said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who, like his Hungarian counterpart and ally Viktor Orb\u00e1n, favours supporting more citizens to raise families and encouraging what is sometimes called \u201cremigration\u201d over importing large numbers of foreign nationals to resolve demographic and labour issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cOver the past 30 years Poland has asked too much of its young people and has not done enough to help them. Employers were not ready to raise salaries for their young workers, so we will do it through scrapping their income tax,\u201d Morawiecki explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Starting immediately, Poles up to the age of 26 will pay no tax on earning up to 85,500 z\u0142oty (\u00a318,200) a year \u2014 a very generous cap, well above average annual incomes in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hungarian Government Will Give $33,000 Bonus to Married Couples Who Have Three Children <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/twV072w0YM\">https:\/\/t.co\/twV072w0YM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1156965059567865856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Asked by the BBC if fewer people Poles were migrating to the United Kingdom or even returning from the country since the Brexit vote in January, Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46978961\">indicated<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>that \u201cMore and more are coming back, and I\u2019m very happy with that\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">This stance by national populist-leaning governments in Central Europe which are broadly eurosceptic \u2014 although for now not in favour of leaving the bloc \u2014 often surprises left-liberal commentators in Western Europe, who take it for granted the Free Movement regime has been of benefit to the poorer Central and South-East European member-states which most migrants have come from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In fact, the governments of countries like Poland and Hungary have all been clear that they wish to improve conditions at home so that their young people and skilled workers stay where they are and raise families, and that they do not view the Free Movement regime\u2019s tendency to drain youth and talent from low-wage economies into relatively high-wage economies as a positive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cI would hope that many, many Poles would come back to Poland. so give us our people back,\u201d Morawiecko joked.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">POLITICO: EU Free Movement Drains Little Latvia of One-Fifth of Its Population <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MassEmigration?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MassEmigration<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g21rW1FXFr\">https:\/\/t.co\/g21rW1FXFr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/950034298517667840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/08\/02\/poland-scraps-income-tax-under-26s-encourage-young-stay-home-emigrants-return\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tax policy aims to tempt back young Poles who have emigrated and follows similar schemes in Russia and Hungary to encourage indigenous population growth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192611,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192609\/revisions\/192611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}