Also misleading: They're not stripping the church of tax-exempt status, they're stripping the church's claim that nonreligious for-profit holdings that have nothing to do with the church or church life, but happen to be owned by the church, should also be tax-exempt.
The church owns 20% of all property in Italy. A miniscule fraction of that is churches and church-support-organisations. The majority of it is just "valuable stuff that the church bought or stole over the last 2000 years"
The article addresses that - simply adding a chapel isn't enough, since the tax you pay on buildings with a partly-religious purpose is proportional to the percentage of the building that's used for religious things and the percentage of the profit that comes from nonreligious things.
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Date: 2012-02-19 12:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-19 11:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-19 05:18 pm (UTC)Not misleading, just premature.
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Date: 2012-02-19 05:34 pm (UTC)The church owns 20% of all property in Italy. A miniscule fraction of that is churches and church-support-organisations. The majority of it is just "valuable stuff that the church bought or stole over the last 2000 years"
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Date: 2012-02-19 02:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-19 03:59 am (UTC)Now they will stuff micro chapels into everything
Date: 2012-02-19 04:06 pm (UTC)That's too big a loop hole. Should be "All property outside of Vatican City that is within the Italian border."
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Date: 2012-02-19 04:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-02-19 06:14 pm (UTC)Oooh, I want to watch. Who's got the popcorn?
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Date: 2012-02-22 04:06 pm (UTC)