(ANSA) - WARSAW, AUGUST 6 - In Poland, a new law recently
came into force, according to which 2 million employed under
26-year-olds will not have to pay taxes. According to the
website of the daily newspaper Le Monde, this law could induce
young Poles not to emigrate seeking for a job. However, the
unemployment rate in Poland is currently below 4% and the local
media do not present the measure as an anti-emigration measure
but as a pre-election move. The law signed by the head of state,
Andrzej Duda, on 24 July 24 was proposed by the ruling party Law
and Justice (Pis) led by Jaroslaw Kaczynski and presented as one
of the pre-election promises made before the European elections
and ahead of the general election to be held next October. In
the same Kaczynski's "package of five promises", the pensioners
received for the first time the Christmas bonus, whereas the
families were offered a bonus of about 120 euros per each first
child (for the second child and subsequent children a similar
bonus has already been enforced since Pis's electoral victory in
2015). (ANSA).
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