{"id":13539,"date":"2014-05-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/05\/24\/italian-tax-donation-helps-hindu-group\/"},"modified":"2014-05-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T12:00:00","slug":"italian-tax-donation-helps-hindu-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/05\/24\/italian-tax-donation-helps-hindu-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Tax Donation Helps Hindu Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettera43.it\/economia\/macro\/8xmille-che-fine-fanno-i-soldi-dei-contribuenti_43675129489.htm\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ITALY, May 28, 2014 (Lettera 43, summarized from the original Italian): The 8xmille (literally, &#8220;eight per thousand&#8221;) initiative in Italy is a mechanism by which the taxpayer directs a small percentage of their income tax (0.8%) to 11 recognized religious denominations or the state. There are check-off boxes at the bottom of the tax form to allow the taxpayer to designate their preferred recipient. Of the funds raised by this initiative in in 2011, 87%, US$1.4 billion. The Italian government itself gets a major part of what remains for humanitarian work. The other ten recognized groups (which includes the Italian Hindu Union), are eligible to receive a portion of the remaining 8Xmille funds. This is the first year Buddhists and Hindus are among the recipient and it is not yet known how much each will receive. <\/p>\n<p>For more information on this unusual system, see:<br \/>http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eight_per_thousand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source ITALY, May 28, 2014 (Lettera 43, summarized from the original Italian): The 8xmille (literally, &#8220;eight per thousand&#8221;) initiative in,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}