It mentions: LDS, Inc. has more than $1 billion in for-profit property in Florida -- and breaks that down by counties in Florida.
Thanks for the link - reading it now. I get the feeling reigning them in is going to make bringing Scientology to account look like a cake walk.
Sort of puts to the lie your contention that these for-profit businesses are tax exempt, doesn't it?
FWIW, the ECLA owns for-profit businesses such as insurance companies and non-profit businesses such as nursing homes.
Taxes are paid on the former, but not the later (except payroll taxes). Colleges which operate for-profit businesses pay taxes on them as well. Even if the owner-operator of said business is a non-profit organization.
If you or I operate a ranch which produces food which is sold into the for-profit market, tax is payable on any profits. If the food is distributed to a non-profit food pantry or its equivalent, then it is tax-exempt. It really isn't all that complicated. The same laws which apply to your state university or the ELCA also apply to the LDS chuch. Annoying, isn't it? < / sarcasm >