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This chapter provides a summary of the arguments presented in the book. It then proposes the creation of a global compassionate tax, that is, a tax on non-charitable dealings by religious organizations. Since religion has changed during the era of neoliberalism, we have to think about it differently. As religions are gradually mimicking, and even becoming, business groups, they should be tax exempt only for their specific secular charity work—acknowledging the hard work that many religious groups perform in the charity domain. We can no longer take for granted that ‘religion’ is intrinsically a public good. More and more often, it is a commodity, and we need to treat its exponents accordingly.
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Possamai, A. (2018). Conclusions: A Global Compassionate Tax for the i-Society. In: The i-zation of Society, Religion, and Neoliberal Post-Secularism. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5942-1_13
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