ROME – Visitors planning a trip to Rome and hoping to save some money by staying in a monastery, convent or any other church-run facility might do well to lock their rates in now, because many of those outfits may soon be jacking up prices in order to pay off millions in back property taxes.
Recently the Episcopal Conference of Italy (CEI) dispatched a letter to Italian bishops informing them that church-run facilities in their dioceses may be facing collection requests for unpaid property taxes from the period 2006-2011, based on a recent ruling from the EU overturning exemptions granted in Italian law.
