Pope said today that paying taxes is sometimes interpreted as “putting your hand in your pocket” but that in reality “it is a sign of legality and justice” and “redistribution of wealth”. In a speech to a delegation from the Italian Tax Administration Agency Francisco stated that paying taxes allows “protect the dignity of the poor, who are always at risk of being crushed by the powerful.”
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The pontiff added that “taxes, when they are fair, are for the common good” and advocated “working so that the culture of common benefit and so that the universal destination of goods is taken seriously”.
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Francis found that the Treasury work “it seems ungrateful in the eyes of a society that places private property as an absolute and does not subordinate it to the style of communion and sharing for the good of all.”
condemned”tax evasion cases“, “black payments” and “generalized illegality” but also recalled that “One can speak of the honesty of many people who do not shirk their duty, who pay their dues and thus contribute to the common good“.
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“The scourge of evasion is answered with the simple rectitude of many taxpayers, and this is a model of social justice,” he added. To the employees of the Treasury too he asked for “transparency” because this does”that people are more motivated to pay taxes, especially if the collection contributes to overcoming inequalitiesto make investments for more employment, to guarantee good health and education for all, and to create infrastructures that facilitate social life and the economy”.
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