{"id":9015,"date":"2017-11-10T13:01:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awpl.lt?p=9015"},"modified":"2017-11-10T13:01:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:01:50","slug":"24-percent-of-people-supporting-political-parties-chose-eapl-cfa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awpl.lt?p=9007","title":{"rendered":"24 percent of people supporting political parties chose EAPL-CFA"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year almost 62 thousand Lithuanian taxpayers deducted 1 percent from income tax in favour of political parties. In terms of the number of contributors, the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families Alliance took the first place supported by almost 15 thousand of people or 24% of all the taxpayers supporting political parties.
\nYesterday, the State Tax Inspectorate (STI) started transferring the money donated by taxpayers through tax deduction for political parties.<\/p>\n

This year almost 62 thousand people allocated a total of 950 thousand euro for political parties. It is less than in the previous
\nyear – the parties received 1.03 million euro from 69 thousand taxpayers in 2016.<\/p>\n

In terms of the number of benefactors, the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families Alliance took the first place – it was supported by 14 913 taxpayers (24% of all the people supporting political parties). The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families Alliance will receive 115 011 euros.<\/p>\n

Social Democrats are on the second place. 12,335 taxpayers (about 175 thousand euros) chose them for the allocations of their 1 percent. Compared with the previous year, the number of taxpayers supporting social democrats party decreased by nearly 3,000.<\/p>\n

Conservatives are on the third place – 9675 taxpayers (about 243 thousand euros). The number of people supporting this formation has also decreased – in 2016 there were 11009 of them.<\/p>\n

The majority of political parties has experienced the drop in the number of benefactors. The Liberals Movement has 1,749 supporters less than last year, the Labour Party – 2438 less, the Freedom Union (Liberals) – 965 less, Order and Justice – 604 less, Farmers and Greens Union – 562 less.<\/p>\n

Taxpayers can transfer 2 percent of their income tax for public benefit organizations, and additionally 1 percent on political parties.<\/p>\n

This year, benefactors donated to political parties and public benefit organizations 17 million euros in total.<\/p>\n

Below you can find a chart with the data on tax deduction in favour of political parties (10 political parties which received most support)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Place according to applications amount<\/td>\nParty<\/td>\nApplications amount <\/td>\nPercentage of all the applications submitted<\/td>\nEUR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 1.<\/td>\nElectoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families Alliance<\/td>\n 14913<\/td>\n 24,2<\/td>\n 115011,83<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 2.<\/td>\n Lithuanian Social Democratic Party<\/td>\n 12335<\/td>\n 20,0<\/td>\n 175245,49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 3.<\/td>\n Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats<\/td>\n 9675<\/td>\n 15,7<\/td>\n 242814,91<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.<\/td>\n Liberals Movement<\/td>\n 9559<\/td>\n 15,5<\/td>\n 220771,79<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5.<\/td>\n Labour Party<\/td>\n 6192<\/td>\n 10,0<\/td>\n 54319,27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6.<\/td>\nLithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals)<\/td>\n 2533<\/td>\n 4,1<\/td>\n 48673,44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7.<\/td>\n Order and Justice<\/td>\n 2298<\/td>\n 3,7<\/td>\n 25132,32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8.<\/td>\n Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union<\/td>\n 1876<\/td>\n 3,0<\/td>\n 30296,82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9.<\/td>\n Political Party \u2018Trade Union Centre\u2019<\/td>\n 627<\/td>\n 1,0<\/td>\n 5213,44<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10.<\/td>\n Lithuanian Green Party<\/td>\n 367<\/td>\n 0,6<\/td>\n 11899,04<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11.<\/td>\n Other parties<\/td>\n 1332<\/td>\n 2,2<\/td>\n 23302,05<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 12.<\/td>\n Total<\/td>\n 61707<\/td>\n 100<\/td>\n 952680,4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

 <\/p>\n

Below you can find a chart presenting the amount of applications in 2015 and 2016.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
No<\/td>\nParty<\/td>\nApplications amount in 2016<\/td>\nApplications amount in 2015<\/td>\nDifference<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 1.<\/td>\n Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families Alliance<\/td>\n 14913<\/td>\n 10816<\/td>\n+ 4097<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 2.<\/td>\n Lithuanian Social Democratic Party<\/td>\n 12335<\/td>\n 15294<\/td>\n\u2013 2959<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
 3.<\/td>\nHomeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats<\/td>\n 9675<\/td>\n11009<\/td>\n\u2013 1334<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.<\/td>\n Liberals Movement<\/td>\n 9559<\/td>\n11308<\/td>\n\u2013 1749<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5.<\/td>\n Labour Party<\/td>\n 6192<\/td>\n 8630<\/td>\n\u2013 2438<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6.<\/td>\nLithuanian Freedom Union (Liberals)<\/td>\n 2533<\/td>\n 3498<\/td>\n\u2013 965<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7.<\/td>\n Order and Justice<\/td>\n 2298<\/td>\n 2902<\/td>\n\u2013 604<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8.<\/td>\n Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union<\/td>\n 1876<\/td>\n 2438<\/td>\n\u2013 562<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9.<\/td>\n Political Party \u2018Trade Union Centre\u2019<\/td>\n 627<\/td>\n 579<\/td>\n+ 48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10.<\/td>\n Lithuanian Green Party<\/td>\n 367<\/td>\n 336<\/td>\n+ 31<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

2017-11-07<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year almost 62 thousand Lithuanian taxpayers deducted 1 percent from income tax in favour of political parties. In terms of the number of contributors, the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania-Christian Families Alliance took the first place supported by almost 15 thousand of people or 24% of all the taxpayers supporting political parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"dwc-title":[],"dwc-content":[],"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awpl.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awpl.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awpl.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awpl.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awpl.lt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.awpl.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9016,"href":"https:\/\/www.awpl.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions\/9016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awpl.lt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.awpl.lt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awpl.lt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.awpl.lt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}