The subject of "the bull" first appeared this year in January erstwhile Marek Jakubiak spoke on this subject in Polsat News. In a conversation about the pension system, he stated that "the bulls request to be introduced", adding, "Why should my children fund someone?" erstwhile asked about the possible fee, he indicated the amount of PLN 800 per month.
According to the portal Infor, and earlier the diary "Fact", a citizen petition was sent to the Sejm, whose author – anonymously – intends to go further than Jakubiak. He proposes that childless people pay a double pension.
In turn, marriages with only 1 child, if they were over 30, would gotta pay a premium of 50%. Infertile persons or those who have lost a kid would be exempt from this obligation.
The petition's author argues that childless people do not contribute to the increase in the number of future taxpayers and thus "naturally burden the strategy without compensating for its future maintenance".
He besides points out that over the age of 30 is the time erstwhile a given citizen graduated, he is likely to have taken a occupation and earned a living. "I have no another reason than there is no justification for the retirement age of 60 years for women and 65 years for men, and this is due to 19th-century events," he pointed out in the petition.
According to the calculations of the "Faktu", children who gain a minimum wage (currently PLN 4666 gross), would gotta pay PLN 455 additional per period to ZUS. In the case of earnings of PLN 6 1000 this amount would increase to PLN 585. At incomes of PLN 8 1000 – up to PLN 780 and at PLN 10 1000 – PLN 976 per month.
Bulls – not the first time in Poland
Let us remind you that "the bull" is simply a taxation which functioned in Poland during the times of the Polish People's Republic as a form of support for pro-family policy. It was an increased income taxation rate, applicable to childless persons, both singles and marriages without children.
It was introduced to encourage the public to start families and have children, which would aid reconstruct the demographic country after the war. The taxation afraid women and men over the age of 25 who remained single as well as childless marriages.
Let us add that akin solutions already be in another European countries. In Germany, children over the age of 23 pay a higher social safety contribution – 0.25 percent points. specified measures aim to improve the demographic situation.
According to the data of the Central Statistical Office, the percent of childless people is expanding – especially among younger adults. In 2021, about 30 percent of women aged 40-44 had no children, and among men of the same age the percent was about 20 percent.
In addition, we observe the trend of delaying the decision on parenting. More and more people postpone or quit the decision. As far as adult citizens are concerned, it is estimated that the percent of people who do not have children may be around 25-30 percent of the full number of adult Poles.
