“income taxes card “. An essential characteristic of remuneration was the definition of a payroll system where a Polish forced laborer would receive in wages about 70-80% of what Germans would receive (in agriculture, even 65-60%) for the same kind of work. These social and financial policies were enforced from the 10th of February, and were regulated by the Reich Minister of Finance. They required the employers to base taxes on the salaries of Poles by the top two groups in the tax-table – for single persons and married couples without children. In addition, Polish workers were denied all benefits, both social and marital. On August the 5th, 1940 a special kind of tax of 15% of the salary, the Social-counterbalance (Sozialausgleichabgabe, and Polengabe in Polish) was introduced in the Polish territories incorporated into the Reich. People employed in agriculture were excluded from this tax because of the dramatic low wages in this sector.
