Otto per mille: how much the Church Italians 
Paul Mouth - taken from
http://www.rinascita.info/ With the revision, reaffirmation of the Concordat of 1929 signed in 1984 Craxi government (two big mistakes made by two great men of the State) Catholicism ceased (theoretically) be the state religion in Italy, although the new text of art. 9 states: "The Italian Republic recognizes the value of religious education (Catholic) and takes into account the principles of Catholicism are part of the historical heritage of the Italian people", and even if, due to the revision of the Convention annexed to the new economic Concordat is repealing the "reasonable" to support the clergy paid by the prior state coffers, the disbursement was immediately replaced with the funding "voluntary" eight per thousand on total revenue of assets subject to income tax, paid by every citizen and entered the office of the tax return forms. Such complaint mechanism "charitable" giving way to the taxpaying public to choose who to donate a tenth required: if the State, the Catholic Church or other religious (Christian), then the exclusion of secular humanitarian organizations, agencies scientific research and so on (1). But this triggered a clever trap devised at the time of our "secular" politicians on the input of the (mon) lords of the hierarchy: since, as expected, and it was expected, only third of taxpayers, out of laziness, indifference or despair, those who choose to donate the offering, art. 37 of its implementing legislation states:
"If choices are not expressed by taxpayers, the purpose (of the quotients for distribution of the total revenue) is established in proportion to the choices (percent) expressed." And since, as was predictable and was listed among the minority that makes a choice only 35% did not opt \u200b\u200bfor the Catholic Church, this addition to the share allocated specifically to cash also gets 85% of its revenue.
The amount of this figure, reversed from the income of citizens and in a sense taken directly from their pockets, was calculated in about a billion per year. In theory, such a huge sum should be devoted to charitable activities, but the same official number of the CEI on the period 2002-2004 admit that 46% of collection is intended "to the needs of worship [the Pope]" (gatherings ocean, papal trips, etc.. etc..), 34% to support the clergy and only the remaining 20% \u200b\u200bto charitable work. But in the latter, it should be noted that most of this village will be dedicated to missionary work, and then to a work of propaganda and proselytizing non-Christian areas of mondo.All 'ripped huge amount each year, bon Crè ill CRE, the taxpayers, should be added a sum of same order of magnitude disbursed directly by the State (excluding therefore regions, provinces and municipalities) with the causal varied: in 2004 there were 258 million intended for Catholic schools, 44 million for the five major Catholic universities, 20 million for the sole University of Opus Dei (2), 478 million for the salaries of 15,000 religion teachers past role in all schools of all levels (3).
then adding to those relating to school funding health institutes run by Catholic institutions, we can calculate another billion expenditure by the State. In fact, the Church runs more than a 6000 medical centers, hospitals and divided in 1853 care arrangement, 729 orphanages, 534 medical clinics, 136 dispensaries, 10 large hospitals (including the Gemelli hospital in Rome, which serves as the Vatican) and 111 medium-sized hospitals, etc.. Then in the field of public education (well, Catholic education), the Italian Church has 504 seminaries, 6,228 nursery schools and kindergartens, 1280 primary, 1136 secondary, five major universities, whose attendance, which provides post placement graduate, is coveted, and 130 other medium-sized universities, including State funding and fees charged to students (4).
But as is natural, such an enormous wealth of production and reproduction is accompanied by an equally wide array of management, consisting of 118 bishoprics, 12,314 parishes, almost as many speakers, 360 generalates of religious orders, monasteries a thousand men or women (half of which, for the lack of vocations, it ends up becoming centers hotel 4 stars). Moreover, only in the metropolitan area of \u200b\u200bRome, the Holy See Bishops of Rome have a vast real estate assets, both inside and outside the Aurelian walls, one-fifth of the urban area that extends into the circuit of the historic fortifications. Only the State of Vatican City has substantial property building extra moenia only partially specified by the Lateran Pacts of 1929: eg., The building Propaganda Fide in Piazza di Spagna, the Gregorian University, the College of Lombard, the Russicum etc.. etc..
Not to mention the area of \u200b\u200bSanta Maria di Galeria, which houses the Vatican Radio and Television, which covers 44 hectares, is still the center of a scandal to the electromagnetic pollution caused by its broadcasting. Throughout this vast real estate assets nor the Vatican nor the CEI pay a single euro of taxes (5). We must add the ecclesiastical bodies that are 59,000 and 90,000 have property, whose value amounts to at least 30 billion, but they by the Convention annexed to the economic to be exempt from taxes on buildings and land and income relating to institutions or institutions, on sales and on those of added value: in short, from all taxes and charges. In this way, the Italian state and municipal institutions are losing revenues estimated at 9 billion and a half for that without the tax privileges of the Church, the Italian could halve the direct and indirect tax burden imposed on the citizen-taxpayers. But as if this were not enough, tax exemptions of the state is necessary to add those municipalities, as a recent law to ecclesiastical bodies "is not exclusively commercial" are exempt from 'ICI. And as for that exemption is sufficient for these institutions (hotels, restaurants, rest stops etc.). Autocertifichino their destination as "places of worship (or having an attached chapel chiesuola6), no municipality receives a € peninsula from these lucrative activities. In this way, the Italian municipalities lose the incredible amount of 2 billion a year and a half, which added to the loss of revenue of the state tax drives up to about 12 billion the total amount of tax (theft authorized) of the Holy Roman Church .
immense amount that the state and municipalities shall repay tax charged on the account to the citizens, each of us pays each year to the Catholic Church so much more than 8 per thousand of his income! Of course one could argue that if the church were pay taxes as ordinary citizens and secular institutions of all kinds and purposes, are prevented from doing so and would face bankruptcy: legal arrangement by which the Concordat first and second does not apply to any ecclesiastical body. What is thus declared immune from the risk of failure and not brought to trial, the Court of competenza.Ma apart from this aspect of proper legal matter, one wonders what is the return of the immense economic cost borne by the Italian people to maintain a foreign state (a pseudo-state, a legal fiction, artificial and fictitious entity) and an ecclesiastical system that constantly intrudes plus all aspects of national life, not just expressing his opinions, but concrete mobilizing political forces and conducting expensive campaigns to pressure the abundance of money available makes it possible to implement. For a financial burden, political, legal and moral so overwhelming the counterparty may be the simple "conservation value" of a culture and the satisfaction of "taking into account the principles of Catholicism, believing (wrongly) that they form part (including the Crusades, the Inquisition witch hunt) the historical heritage of the Italian people. I'm afraid, and rightly, that the return cost is not the prerogative of the people but the political class Italian, that since the Law of Guarantees and Covenant Gentiloni, despite its internal contradictions interesting point on the support of SRC to their maneuvers and power to safeguard their political and personal interests.
Notes
Law No. 122 of 1985
Second Report on secularism in liberal critics No. 123-124 January-February 2006. p. 31, 39 Law No. 186 of 2003
Second Report on secularism in liberal critics No. 123-124 January-February 2006. p. 52, 57Agenzia of Economic and Social Research Ecclesiastical Authorities: figures of tax evasion. Report of September 7, 2006 Law No. 248 of 2006
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