The Catholic Church Has To Pay Taxes

[Solitary]

It's about time for it here too!

Croatia will soon begin collecting taxes from the powerful Catholic Church, Southeast European Times reports.

A new law levies taxes on nonprofit organizations with annual income of at least 30,000 euros ($41,000) and requires all nonprofits to file regular financial reports to the Finance Ministry. Groups that take in more than 1.2 million euros per year will be required to submit audit reports.

[To no surprise, the Vatican tried to defend itself  as noted below...]

“If they are planning to introduce a tax to the church, then they should abolish all NGOs such as, for example, LGBT associations, or make them to pay taxes also,” a Catholic priest in Zagreb told reporters, according to SETimes.

Advocates for smaller organizations praised the measure but said requirements for them should be less onerous than for larger groups.

“The government is using small league players to stop big league players in their tracks and is putting everyone in the same basket. It seems that small NGOs, which are helpful, will pay the price,” Mirjana Kucar, director of a feminist organization called Domine, toldDalje, a Croatian daily.

Croatia, which joined the European Union last year, has been put on financial probation by Brussels. Over the next few years the country aims to cut its deficit from the current 6.4 percent of GDP â€" more than twice that allowed by EU criteria â€" to 2.4 percent. To do that, the government will reduce spending by about 3.6 billion kunas ($643 million) and raise an additional 4.7 billion kunas in new revenues.

Some 50,000 Croatian nonprofit organizations receive around 1.5 billion kuna [$267 million] from the state, according to Croatia Week, a news website.

SOURCE:
http://www.tol.org/client/article/24155-croatia-to-tax-the-church-protests-oust-kosovo-academic.html

[SGOS]

Maybe it will catch on.  Croatia isn't exactly a global trend setter, but lets watch this and see where it goes.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Must be a sign of the end of times and p e r s e c u t I o n ...

[stromboli]

Here's another reason to like Croatia......



OK I'm a drooling sexist pig. Deal with it.

[Solitary]

Whether beautiful, or attractive women, like it or not, they are sex symbols.