PBO Status (Public Benefit Organisation)

We are happy to announce that in August 2008 we have established the PBO status of our organisation. This means that from 2009 on it will be possible to donate 1% of your tax to us. Here are a few important issues concerning such form of supporting our Association.

1. By giving 1% of our tax we do not lose anything. It is considered neither a donation nor tax relief. We are not obliged to previous donating the organisation with any amount of money. Simply, we have a possibility to decide on behalf of the Minister of Finance to whom devote one percent of the output tax (the same which we are obliged to pay to the Tax/Revenue Office anyway). When we do not use this possibility, all the money goes to one common box (the Budget).

2. We do not have to transfer the money by ourselves. It will be done for us by the Tax/Revenue Office. All we have to do is fill in the right space on the tax return form (PIT-36, PIT-36L, PIT-37, PIT-28, PIT-38). After calculating how much tax we will have to pay after a year, we need to put the name and the KRS number of the Association in the right space of the form (called “Application for giving 1% of the output tax for a PBO organisation”).

3. A taxpayer is entitled to give his or her consent for providing their personal data (name, surname and address) to the PBO organisation. These information will be provided by the Tax/Revenue Office. The taxpayer’s consent will be stated in the PIT form by ticking the right box (item no. 134 – PIT-28, item no. 310 – PIT-36, item no. 110 – PIT-36L, item no. 129 – PIT-37, item no. 63 – PIT-38)

4. The money – the 1% of the output tax – will be transferred on the Association’s bank account in July or August. The transfer costs will be deducted from the calculated amount.

We encourage you to support the activity of our Association.