Thanks to Boris' WA, that he signed a few days ago with such a smile, the UK will indefinitely, even after Dec. 31 2020, be subject to the decisions of the European Court of Justice.
Thanks Boris, for giving us (the EU) power of all trade disputes with the UK! Forever!
Source: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/italien-will-kein-geld-von-der-kirche-komplott-der-eu-a-1237490.html
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator
The Catholic Church would have to pay taxes in arrears: A ruling by the European Court of Justice could bring the clammy Italian state several billion euros. But the right-wing government doesn't want the money.
Much has been written about a letter from the EU Commission to the Italian government: The planned new debt is too high, he said, and if Rome does not present a new financial plan by next Tuesday, Brussels will initiate criminal proceedings.
Almost at the same time, however, happy news also came from Europe. And it didn't make such big waves.
The European Court of Justice in Luxembourg issued a ruling that will allow the Italian state to collect four to five billion euros - the Association of Italian Municipalities (Anci) estimates. Some even see much more billions in the game.
Strange: the government is not happy at all about the prospect of so much money. It doesn't want that, it says behind closed doors. Officially, it does not react at all for the time being.
The gift is "a Trojan horse", whispered an unnamed source to the Turin newspaper "La Stampa". "Those in Europe know only too well that we can never demand so much money from the Catholic Church, especially not before the European elections in May. That was a "conspiracy against the government".
What is it about? About the real estate tax ICI. According to a 1993 law, it goes to the municipalities and affects all real estate registered in the cadastre, i.e. apartments, garages, but also offices, shops, industrial companies, hotels - with the exception of buildings used for agriculture. Of course, ICI also affects the properties of the Catholic Church in Italy. This is, after the state, probably the largest house and land owner.
But the church never paid the taxes. It didn't have to, because the state didn't demand it. That was illegal, many lawyers and politicians found, and turned to the EU. But even the Commission in Brussels had no desire to mess with the Church, and for years it dragged on and forgot the procedure.
At some point that was no longer possible, in 2012 the EU had to officially announce that it was a forbidden tax advantage for commercial institutions of the church to the detriment of their competitors that they were spared the tax. A bang.
Well, the tax debts from 1993 to 2006 had already been declare
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