Patriarch Porfirije: Church pays tax like all other citizens
BizLife 12.11.2021 | BIZLife
Patriarch Porfirije has rejected the allegations that the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) does not pay taxes, and he pointed out that neither the Church nor the priests are outside the tax system of Serbia, as reported by SOC’s PR service.
The patriarch stated on his Instagram account that he really could not imagine what motivated those who made completely incorrect claims that the Church did not pay taxes. “I am afraid that for those people public finances and the state of Serbia are not on the first, but on the last place,” he wrote. He pointed out that neither the Church nor the priests were outside the tax system of the Republic of Serbia, adding that, like all the other citizens, they paid VAT