NATIONALIZATION OF CEMETERY LOTS IN RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R005900610007-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: October 4, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Rumania
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l. An order of the Rumanian Council of Ministern now- requires that titles to
cemetery lots be verified and taxes paid thereon. This order establishes
a verification committee which in charged with the following responsibilities3
a. Search the title of each cemetery lot.
b. Fix the total amount of taxes awned to the state, as is done with
all other land holdings, and calculate the balance of taxes due,
On Fix the amount of the taxes due an each lot.
do Nationalize those iota or vaults mined by individuals (dead or alive)
whose conduct has not been democratic, and those lots or vaults whose
owners cannot pay the taxes.
2. At each village cemetery a notifying office to establish titles to lots has
been set up. These titles are established in the names of heirs of deceased
persons who had. bought lots.
3. Every claimant must furnish evidence of ownership of lots, which generally
cannot be accomplished since the lot often was purchased by a relative now
deceased and the documents have not been handed down to their deoendents,
or the document, if it exists, is merely a receipt 'stating that the purchase
had been entered in cemetery records. If proof of ownership cannot be
produced the heir loses all claim on the lot.
4. Persons Who are able to produce documentary evidence of ownership are then
required to produce the receipt for taxes paid at time of purchase. A
majority of lot owners cannot produce such receipts. If the owner wishes
to keep the lot he must pay all taxes due at time of purchase and produce a
receipt showing such payment. The owner cannot simply renounce ownership
and refuse to pay the taxes. Such action would render him liable to
prosecution for non-payment of taxes legally due the state.
t, Persons establishing their ownernhip of lots nust also pay inheritance taxes,
which involves payment of this tax for each ancestor through Wham ownership
has panned to the present 'owner. The inheritance taxes are high, especially
if there is a vault on the lot.
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Archivist of the United States.
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6. Owners are likewise required to produce receipts showing payment of yearly
taxes. Since yearly taxes on cemetery lets are in innovation of the
Communist regime, tax rates for earlier years must be established. Onners
are required to pay this annual tax for each year from time of original
purchase.
7. When owners are unable to prove title and the lots or vaults are nationalized,
the remains of the deceased are removed and consigned to a oammon grave.
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