1. Régimen fiscal de los bienes inmuebles de la Iglesia y, en particular, de los lugares de culto.
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DEL REY VILLANUEVA, Antonio VÁZQUEZ
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TAXATION of church property , *CATHOLIC Church & state , *TAX laws , *TAX exemption , *PROPERTY tax , *HISTORY ,SPANISH politics & government, 1975-2014 ,20TH century Catholic Church history - Abstract
Places of worship have traditionally benefited from a tax regime designed to ensure that the tax liability of immovable property does not deprive the Church of its assets. The definition of the tax system to be applied is complex because a number of legal provisions of different kinds must be taken into account, a situation that gives rise in turn to a certain level of legal uncertainty. A key provision in this regard is the 1979 Agreement on Economic Affairs reached between Spain and the Holy See (as well as the cooperation agreements established with other legally recognized religious creeds), which lists a core set of tax benefits to which the State cannot lay unilateral claim. At the same time, the tax system governing non-profit entities also applies to places of worship, a domestic provision that involves an improvement in tax status in terms of both content and application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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