Giorgio Santacroce, the head of the
Court of Cassation, on Monday blasted the furore that followed
the supreme court's ruling that property tax should be paid by
Catholic Church schools.
Nunzio Galantino, the secretary general of Italian Bishops
Conference CEI, criticised the ruling, telling ANSA on Saturday
that it was "dangerous", "ideological" and would damage the
right to educational freedom and threaten many Catholic schools.
Santacroce said in a statement on Monday that the furore
over the ruling on the city of Livorno's demand for payment of
ICI, a property tax that has been replaced by another levy, from
Catholic schools was "largely out of place".
He added that the EU is probing Catholic schools' exemption
from property tax in Italy on suspicion that it was State aid.
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