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The Mission “Dobro Czynić” (“Good Works Mission”) operates as an agency of the Church of Christ in the Republic of Poland. The Church of Christ in the Republic of Poland is listed in the register of Churches and other religious denominations of the Ministry of Interior and Administration in section A, item 24. Moreover, the Mission, as a church legal person and a Public Benefit Organization, is also registered in the National Court Register under the number KRS 0000253759. The activities of the Mission are supervised by the Council of the Church of Christ and other Church bodies. As a Public Benefit Organization, the Mission submits annual reports to the tax authority and reports on its public benefit activities, which are published in a database of reports of public benefit organizations. Since 2011 the director of the Mission is Radosław Gasza.

Good Works Charity Mission as an agency of the Church of Christ in the Republic of Poland was established and received the status of a public benefit organization in 2006 to take advantage of the opportunity to raise funds for charity from the 1% income tax deduction. Thanks to it, the faithful and friends of evangelical communities and all people who identify with our values can donate 1% of their tax to charity as part of making their annual income tax returns.

The Mission’s biggest project is Friendship House in Radom. Thanks to the cooperation with International Messengers, a daily service for homeless, excluded and addicts is run in a building located in the city centre of Radom. People in need can get warm, drink hot tea, get food, take a shower, get first aid and professional assistance in the fight against addictions (the centre is operating for several hours a day). However, we are not only concerned with providing food, clothes, toys or medicines. In fact, financial and material help is just an excuse to establish a relationship, support with a good word, get out of hopelessness and addictions and pour Hope.

In general, however, the Mission does not run projects on its own, but initiates and supports charity activities of local communities. These are mainly aid activities for people in difficult financial and health situations, the elderly, the sick, children and young people, former prisoners or refugees. We operate throughout the country. The natural basis of Mission’s operations are units of the Church of Christ in the Republic of Poland. So far we’ve cooperated with Christian Communities in Warsaw (SCh Puławska, SCh Północ, SCh Południe), Wrocław, Olsztyn, Grudziądz, Ostróda, Lublin, Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Nysa, Bielsk Podlaski, Pabianice, Ciechanów, Płock, Łódź, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Sosnowiec, Kołobrzeg, Pabianice.
The Mission is also open to support any charity initiatives that are in line with biblical principles. We cooperate with other churches and NGOs, e.g. with the Street Church and the New Beginning Centre in Warsaw, the „Samuel” Educational Society, the „Przystań” Academic Tourist Association (Mt 28), PROEM Foundation,  KChB Nursing Home in Białystok, the Voice of the Gospel Foundation, the Pentecostal Church „Nowa Przystań” in Olsztyn, „Nowe Pokolenie” in Warsaw and many others.

In 2019, from the 1% of the income tax, more than 120,000 PLN was transferred to the account of the Mission „Dobro Czynić”. Not hundreds, but thousands of taxpayers in 129 towns are already donating part of their tax to the Mission. In the official report of the Ministry of Finance for 2018, out of 8869 public benefit organizations, the Mission was ranked 603, which means that we are among the 10% largest Public Benefit Organizations in Poland. For the past few years alone from the 1% the Mission has managed to raise over PLN 750,000 (in total, together with other donations, it’s over PLN 2.5 million).

Official financial reports are publicly available on the Public Benefit Organziations’ reports database.

The Mission conducts no commercial activities and lives off donations only. Its charitable activities are possible thanks to the generosity of donors and to a great extent to the work delivered by volunteers.

Help us to do good works:
– by making a donation to the bank account of the Mission 43 1240 1112 1111 0010 0977 0400 (in the title you can write „na działania statutowe Misji organizacji pożytku publicznego”)
– donating 1% of your income tax (in your annual tax return just enter the KRS number of the Mission 0000 253 759)
– making in-kind donations

1% of income tax can be donated by:
• personal income tax payers (tax payers who have opted for settling the tax by the employer cannot transfer 1%)
• taxpayers liable to pay lump sum tax on registered income
• self-employed taxpayers (including those paying a flat 19% tax rate)
• 1 % can also be donated by pensioners, provided that they fill in the PIT-37 by themselves (based on the PIT received from ZUS or they file PIT- OP declaration with ZUS – then ZUS will forward the information about the 1% transfer to the tax office)

If you want to donate 1% of your tax to the Good Works Charity Mission you should enter the number KRS 0000 253 759 in the appropriate columns of your tax return, entitled „Application for transfer of 1% of due tax to the Public Benefit Organizations OPP” – this is the register number of the „Good Works” Charity Mission (“Dobro Czynić” Misja Charytatywna) in the National Court Register. Please also enter the amount you wish to donate (max. 1% tax).

In the final sections of the annual PIT form (both paper and electronic versions) there is a box to indicate the Public Benefit Organization to which the taxpayer wishes to donate a 1% of his income tax. Just enter the KRS number of the Mission 0000253759. That’s it. You do not need to do anything else. It is the tax office that makes the transfer to the bank account of the Good Works Mission.

Individuals settling their taxes via ZUS send the PIT-OP form to ZUS, in which they authorize ZUS to indicate an organization to which they want to donate 1%. ZUS will make the appropriate calculations and forward the information to the tax office.

Individuals settling their taxes via ZUS send the PIT-OP form to ZUS, in which they authorize ZUS to indicate an organization to which they want to donate 1%. ZUS will make the appropriate calculations and forward the information to the tax office.

Donors can be individuals and legal entities (companies, foundations, etc.).

The provisions of the Personal Income Tax Act (Article 26(1)(9)) on the deductibility of donations from income tax specify that individuals may deduct donations from their tax base in an amount not exceeding 6% of their income.
The provisions of the Corporate Income Tax Act (art. 18 par. 1 point 1 and 7) concerning the possibility of deducting donations from income tax by companies, foundations, etc. state that donations may be deducted from the tax base in an amount not exceeding 10% of the income obtained. One of the conditions for deducting a monetary donation is to document it with the proof of transfer to the bank account 43 1240 1112 1111 0010 0977 0400. In the title of the transfer you can write for example „statutory activities of the Mission – a public benefit organization” or indicate a specific goal after agreeing it with the Mission.

The donation can also be in kind (e.g. food).

If a donor wants to deduct the donation on their annual tax return, they must have proof of making the donation. If it is money – the donation must be paid into the organization’s bank account and the donor should keep the proof of payment. If it is a gift in kind, you must have an confirmation of the donation (a document in which the value of the gift should be estimated).

Both the donor and the beneficiary organization must file a CIT-D declaration with the tax office, which provides information on large donations made or received during the tax year.

If a donor wants to deduct the donation on their annual tax return, they must have proof of making the donation. If it is money – the donation must be paid into the organization’s bank account and the donor should keep the proof of payment. If it is a gift in kind, you must have a confirmation of the donation (a document in which the value of the gift should be estimated).

Both the donor and the beneficiary organization must file a CIT-D declaration with the tax office, which provides information on large donations made or received during the tax year.

A donation may also be exempt from VAT under Art. 43 sec. 1 point 16 of the VAT Act. The provision states the following conditions:

• The recipient of the donation must be a public benefit organization
• The purpose of the donation is charity
• The subject of the donation are food products, excluding alcohol.

Good Works Charity Mission is not a foundation. The Mission is an agency of the Church of Christ (an ecclesiastical legal person). This is especially important because, in the common understanding, Public Benefit Organizations are often identified with foundations, and there is the Dobro Czynić OPP Foundation, with which the “Dobro Czynić (Good Works) Charity Mission has nothing to do. Therefore, in order to avoid mistakes, we kindly ask you not to use the term “foundation” when talking about the Good Works Mission, and when donating 1% of tax, please check carefully whether the correct KRS number 0000253759 is used.