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In the course of their activities, religious congregations are likely to collect and process personal data regarding their members, employees and faithful or third parties. This activity could be subject to Italian law. The Italian Privacy Code sets forth the rules and requirements regarding the processing...

The municipal garbage tax (Tariffa Rifiuti or Ta.Ri.) is applied by the Municipality of Rome also to non-profit organizations such as Religious Congregations. This tax is calculated on the basis of, inter alia, the property area and certain subjective characteristics of the entity holding the property. ...

The Italian Supreme Court of Cassation issued a very important decision which could seriously affect Religious Congregations providing services in return for money (by way of example: hospitality, education and healthcare). The case concerned a school run by a Religious Congregation which, as for all schoo...

  Italian law imposes on resident individuals and juridical entities the obligation to disclose assets owned abroad. With the stated intent of facilitating and inducing the regularization by interested parties of foreign owned assets, the Italian authorities passed Law no. 1642 of December 4, 2014 ...

One question that comes up increasingly often is how a congregation's central government can ensure control of a property or ministry (and international operations in general) located outside Italy when the local members left to do this work are not sufficient. This can happen, for instance, where a foundatio...