I was going to mention Business::PayPal::IPN but i seen in Business::CPI::Gateway::PayPal::IPN the person that wrote it stated this about Business::PayPal::IPN = This is a rewrite of Business::PayPal::IPN. It works somewhat similar to it, and shares almost none of the same code.

Looking into what Business::PayPal::IPN does. It uses CGI to get the param's, so if the module works. that means it decodes the content before sending it back to PayPal.
You can try to use this code on $return_query to decode it and see if it works now. 

sub decode_it {
my $value = shift || '';
 $value =~ tr/+/ /;
 $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
return $value;
}

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Update: What perlfan means by "always return 200" is at the end of the code you need to print out a blank header like in the example. They use text/plain for the 200 response at the end. I'm not sure what that would equal in Dancer2 to get a header like that. 
print "content-type: text/plain\n\n";

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In reply to Re^2: How do you use Paypal IPN with Dancer2? by $h4X4_|=73}{
in thread How do you use Paypal IPN with Dancer2? by MorayJ

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