 Tax Morale and the Church: How Catholic Clergies Adapted Norms of Paying Taxes to Secular Institutions (1940s–1950s)Korinna Schönhärl ()
Chapter Chapter 12 in Reassessing the Moral Economy, 2023, pp 237-258 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract Paying taxes is a field of economic activity that has always been highly morally charged: the question of who pays how much or can avoid or evade the prescribed payments is always closely related to debate about a fair societal distribution of burdens. In the process of moralisation, therefore, faith communities such as the Catholic Church also repeatedly seized the floor to propagate certain norms. The article examines the contributions of theologians from Spain, the USA and West Germany in the 1940s and 1950s. It concludes that the norms of taxation they propagated differed greatly depending on the institutional and economic frameworks within which they operated. The analysis proves taxation to be a field of economic action and societal dispute where economics and morality are indissolubly interconnected. Keywords: Catholic Tax Morale; Catholic Morals; History of Tax Morale; Spanish Tax History; USA Tax History; West German Tax History (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-031-29834-9_12 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-29834-9_12 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Economic History from Palgrave Macmillan |
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