re: Why aren’t churches taxed?

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How about the church owned house that the preacher lives in, the car, the plane, the mission trips to the Caribbean? Before you say it’s only the mega churches, I know if a medium sized church in ellic that owns two planes.

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Some of these are definitely taxed benefits

Also, you are out of your mind if you don't think a large portion of company vehicles on the road are being incorrectly taxed.

Absolutely.

How many people in this thread have a company car and report all those personal miles?

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Why?

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all the benefits that come attatched to the churchfree housing food all the lovely milfs that need counseling in a non taxed church setting
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benefit known as the “parsonage exemption” (or “parish exemption”), “licensed, commissioned, or ordained” ministers of religion may deduct most of the money they spend on housing from their federal income tax, and these properties are often exempt from state property taxes. The exemption has existed since 1921, and no equivalent tax break is available to leaders of secular nonprofit charities. A legal battle has ensued to determine whether the exemption can apply to multiple homes used by a single pastor. In Mar. 2011, a U.S. Tax Court ruled that Phil Driscoll, an ordained minister and Grammy Award–winning trumpeter imprisoned for tax evasion, was exempt from federal income tax on $408,638 used to purchase a second home near Cleveland, TN. The court determined that the word “home” used in the tax code is equivalent to “homes.” "

If you're a pastor with integrity, you'll follow the Billy Graham rule regarding being alone with a woman that isnt your wife. I follow it myself..

That said, being a pastor is hard work. It is a lot more difficult than most people realize and I doubt anyone is doing if for a "free" house.

Of course there will be people that take advantage of a given situation, but id wager most don't.

A lot of good men leave pastoral service because of the difficult, draining, emotional toll it takes, and in general, the low pay.

The perpetuity of this ignorance throughout society should be taxed heavily until its existance has been eradicated...for the sake of all mankind!

Revenue rom donations (tithing) and the sale of physical assets.

To control them. As long as the church doesn’t take an official political position and preach it to their members, it enjoys tax free status.

However, it’s 501C3 is jeopardized if the pastor and/or church body endorses or exercises political views or beliefs in an official capacity. This allows the government to control and censor the church, and how it operates. But they (the government) only enforces their powers of revocation on certain select groups.

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I know that is the real goal of those who want to tax churches. They know it will kill them.

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Many a militant atheist out there

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UFFan

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I think....

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Nobody cares what you think.

Who da fuk do you think you are that deserves an uninformed opinion?

I feel that non-profits should pay property tax and sales tax as those taxes directly fund the local infrastructure. They put more of a financial burden on public infrastructure than my personal property and usage, yet I have to pay and they don't.