# A New Tax—the School Tax

- URL: https://syn.by/en/history/archives/a-new-tax-the-school-tax/
- Published: 1924-06-08T19:35:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-22T21:02:15+00:00
- Section: Archives
- Language: en
- BE edition: https://syn.by/historya/arkhivy/novy-padatak-shkolny.md
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/istoriya/arhivy/novyy-nalog-shkolnyy.md

> Tugutt has submitted to the Treasury Committee a draft of a school tax, which will go to Polish schools. It turns out that Belarusian peasants must themselves pay for the crippling of their own children.

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Tugutt, a member of the Sejm and a candidate for the post of "Polish Beneš," has submitted to the Treasury Committee a draft of a new tax, a school tax, which the local self-governments are to levy… So now Belarusian peasants will, even more plainly, have to give money separately and specially to the "self-governments" so that these, in Polish schools, may cripple their children spiritually…

The plainer, the better…