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September 15, 1983
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The Dutch Parliament has approved a government decision to abrogate a 150 year-old law which paid a subvention to religious officials of all faiths in Holland and facilitated Jewish and other congregations in taxing their members. The law, promulgated in the Napoleonic era, was intended to compensate religious bodies for the expropriation of their properties by the government. The government decided that the law was absolete and an infringement of privacy.

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