Dalla Torre calls the exemption from the payment of ICI (the Council Tax) a "fair measure": "If it did not exist he comments , the price that society would have to pay would be very high, in terms of fewer assistance and social services to the weakest segments of the population". If understood in its full extent, the exemption from the payment of such Council Tax "encourages society, i.e. all that is neither State nor market, to do more in the social sphere". The problem of the Council Tax, comments Dalla Torre, "does not concern competition and produces no market alterations", because it concerns "spheres, sections and services which the market is not interested in, and, if it were, it would be only at a very high price, which would involve high incomes and would leave out the majority of the population". As to the confusion and the incorrect parallel that have been made by a large part of the media between the Italian Church and the Vatican, between the Council Tax and the Concordat, Dalla Torre comments: "Bringing up the Concordat is specious. The Council Tax does not pertain to the Concordat, and concordats are not done and undone but are made to last. After all, invoking the Concordat is allowed by our Constitution, in the section about fundamental principles".
