Why so many non-religious Europeans pay church taxesAnd how cunning Icelanders avoid it IN THE Old Testament, priests are told to take a tenth of every believer’s crops as a tax to support the faith. In these latter days, they can outsource the job to the state. In many European countries, “church taxes”—levied on all registered members of religious organisations by governments—still exist. The go
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