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For example, a person earning €50,000 may pay income tax at 20% (€10,000); the church tax is an additional 8% (or 9%) of that sum (€800 or €900). [10] The paid church tax is deductable in year of paying and reduces the taxable income.
A large number of people seeking ULC ordination do so in order to be able to legally officiate at weddings [16] or perform other spiritual rites. Sources have reported a 29% increase in the number of friends or family members acting as wedding officiant since 2009, resulting in over 40% of couples in the US in 2016 choosing this option.
In practice, ordination was not an impediment to marriage; therefore some priests did marry even after ordination." [7] "The tenth century is claimed to be the high point of clerical marriage in the Latin communion. Most rural priests were married and many urban clergy and bishops had wives and children."
This way, you could give your child up to $34,000 tax-free. Pay expenses directly: Another way to get around the gift tax is to pay wedding vendors directly rather than gifting the cash to your child.
According to Zola, the average cost of a wedding in 2024 is about $33,000. But location plays a major role in determining how expensive a wedding is. In Rhode Island, for example, couples spend ...
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In the Catholic Church, it is the bride and groom who perform the Sacrament of Matrimony (marriage), but a marriage can only be valid if the Church has a witness at the wedding ceremony whose function is to question the couple to ensure that they have no obstacle to marriage (such as an un-annulled previous marriage or certain undisclosed facts between the couple) and that they are freely ...
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