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Most-Hid: Tax Donations to Non-Profit Making Sector Should Rise to 3%
Wednesday 03 February 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Bratislava, February 3 (TASR) - People should be able to donate 3 percent of their taxes to non-profit making organisations rather than 2 percent as is currently the case, according to an initiative presented by the non-parliamentary Most-Hid party on Wednesday.
Such a measure would boost people's interest in the functioning of the third sector. "We want our society to behave in a more active fashion," said party vice-chair Edit Pfundtner.
Most-Hid vice-chairman for the economy Ivan Svejna concurred that the financing of non-profit making organisations has to be shifted onto the public as much as possible. At the same time, he said that only organisations that can show that they are actually doing something should be able to vie for contributions. "That somebody sets up an organisation and asks for money should not be the case," he said.
According to Svejna, the party, which he noted is the first to come up with a specific vision of helping the non-profit making sector, aims to alter the behaviour of public administration towards this sector.
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