Counselor and member of the National Justice Committee Amīr Ramzī rejected the claim raised for drafting a law that places the Church's endowments under state financial control. “The church will not accept the monitoring of its money or donations by any entity, and should not pay taxes to the state because all its activities fall within the provision of the needs of orphans and needy Copts, and therefore the state cannot claim taxes because they are not investment projects” (Mājī Jamāl, al-Sabāh, Jan. 13, p. 11). Read original text in Arabic.