The Italian Minister of Finance, Ezio Vanoni, has informed the Union of Italian Jewish Communities that it was justified in protesting requests for the payment of inheritance taxes by heirs of Jews who died in Nazi and Fascist concentration camps.
The Minister has requested the Union to furnish him with a list of Jews who were taxed and the local offices which imposed the duties, so that he could correct the situation. The Union had pointed out that an Italian law of March 8, 1945, exempted from inheritance tax payments relatives of Italian soldiers who died in the war and relatives of Italian citizens–both Jewish and non-Jewish–who died at the hands of the Nazis and Fascists.
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