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Just type the words IRS, Christian, and Bible in your search engine and you’ll get a flood of results, most of them starting with headlines like this: “IRS denies Christian nonprofit tax exemption, saying biblical values are Republican.” Or this, “IRS denies tax-exempt status to Christian nonprofit group because 'Bible teachings are typically affiliated with the Republican Party'.” Naturally, there has been outrage among Christian conservatives over this ruling, pointing to this as yet another example of the IRS’s anti-Christian, anti-conservative bias. That’s also why most of the commentary has focused on the egregious ruling itself, which is being appealed....

On Friday, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a tax cut package, House Bill 7061, designed to encourage spending in the Sunshine State. This Bill creates three approximate weeklong tax holidays, including one coinciding with the 4th of July, to be dubbed “Freedom Week.” The Bill attracted bipartisan support, with only four legislators in both chambers of the Florida Legislature voting in oppositon, and mandated that during these tax holidays, sales taxes on certain goods will be suspended in an effort to promote shopping. “In Florida, we are providing more than $168 million in taxpayer savings for families and businesses. From...

It looks like Congress is taking steps to end some of the special tax breaks and subsidies for major sports leagues in its tax reform package. Professional sports leagues like the NFL enjoy tax exemptions on the municipal bonds that are used to build their stadiums. A provision in Sec. 3604 eliminates this perk. If sports teams want to build new stadiums, they’re now going to pay federal taxes to do it.

No wonder Oliver wanted Trump to run for President I have a confession to make. I think John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” is funny. It’s wrong about virtually everything, but it’s wrong in an amusing way. That said, I doubt the host has too much to do with the amount of entertainment I’m getting. He probably just shows up, reads the DNC talking points he’s handed, mugs, and leans on his British accent to sell his arrogant attitde. That’s, OK, though. Like I said, I think it’s done well and ends up being pretty funny. He’s certainly better than the...

Here’s an interesting way the government is blowing your tax dollars, but more on the state and local level than the federal. As much as I love movies, (well, some of them anyway) the process of making them involves a lot of money. This won’t come as a surprise to anyone who follows the box office numbers on a regular basis. In 1980 the average cost of making a Hollywood film was $4.3M. By last year the average had gone up to $200M and studios are spending up to $100M just on marketing for the big ticket pictures. With that...

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes… the end of religious liberty? That’s what plenty of faith-based groups are worried about, now that the Supreme Court is weeks away from potentially writing the epilogue to the First Amendment rights of millions of religious Americans. In the quote heard ’round the world from the Supreme Court arguments on same-sex “marriage,” the President’s top lawyer, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli confirmed everyone’s worst fears — that the government would use a liberal ruling as a weapon to use against Christians. tony perkins frc Asked if religious schools could lose their tax-exempt status...

There is much more at stake in the debate over same-sex marriage than wedding cakes. Namely, the tax-exempt status of universities is now at risk. “The most notable exchange during the argument last month in the same-sex marriage case before the Supreme Court, Obergefell v. Hodges, likely occurred between Justice Samuel Alito and Solicitor General Donald Verrilli,” Terry Eastland writes in The Weekly Standard. “Well, in the Bob Jones case,” Alito pointed out, “the Court held that a college was not entitled to tax-exempt status if it opposed interracial marriage or interracial dating.” “In fact, as Alito and Verrilli of...

The admission was made by Barack Hussein Obama's lawyer, the sitting Solicitor General of the United States, Donald Verrilli, Jr., on Tuesday, April 28, 2015, during questioning by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Samuel Alito, Jr. Solicitor General Verrilli, using a public office to defend same-sex marriage on behalf of the United States, was asked by Justice Alito if religious institutions could be at risk of losing their tax-exempt status due to their beliefs about Biblical marriage. Verrilli's reply was, "It's certainly going to be an issue."

Leftists are now openly asking the IRS to once again threaten the tax exempt status of a non-profit. This time it is Liberty University. Recently, Senator Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States on twitter. This was the first time twitter was used for such an announcement. This was historic in of itself. Later that day, the Senator’s first public speech after his announcement was at Liberty University. President Falwell of Liberty University clearly stated that Cruz’s appearance was not an endorsement of his candidacy. This is in keeping with university tradition as well as...

Washington D.C.’s non-voting Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton introduced a bill Wednesday that would strip tax-exempt status from professional sports teams that associate with the Redskins team name, which she said “has officially been found offensive." Norton’s bill is a companion measure to one offered by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wa. Norton, a Democrat, cited a recent decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to deny the renewal of the Redskins name, which is currently under appeal by team owner Daniel Snyder. “Continued use of the current team name and mascot is not only inconsistent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark...

A Republican-authored report on alleged financial irregularities within AARP has met with deep resistance among Democratic lawmakers and AARP senior executives. The report, entitled "Behind the Veil: The AARP America Doesn't Know," alleges that the AARP violated its tax exempt status by, in effect, selling health insurance policies and by actively lobbying for the massive health care law passed by Congress and signed by President Obama last year. Both those activities, Republicans say, violate the spirit of 501c4 tax-exempt organizations, which are supposed to "promote the common good and social welfare of a community of people." Confronted with the report...

Senate Democratic leaders say last-minute changes to the health care bill include giving nonprofit health insurance companies an exemption from the excise tax on insurers, a revision pushed by Sen. Carl Levin, who is a major recipient of campaign contributions form mega nonprofit Blue Cross Blue Shield. The excise tax or fee on health insurance companies was expected to bring in $6.7 billion to help pay for the nearly $1 trillion bill, but the complete exemption for nonprofits sought by Mr. Levin, Michigan Democrat, would cut the revenue in half. "The health insurance fee proposal in the pending Senate bill...

Plano, TX (May 12, 2009) – Liberty Legal Institute announced today that the Internal Revenue Service found that pastors who gathered in 2006 for a series of public policy conferences had every right to do so and that the organizers of the events did not violate any tax laws that govern non-profit organizations. “This liberal attempt to intimidate pastors has backfired,” said Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel of Liberty Legal Institute which represented event organizers. “There is now a clear IRS statement outlining these pastors’ events and approving them as valid under the law.” In January 2008, the IRS began its...

Non-profit Org.'s labeled by State Dept. as Terrorist Org. can still claim tax-exempt status from IRS But Congressman Bob Beauprez (R-CO) recently discovered the irony and has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives to close a loophole in current law and suspend the tax-exempt status of terrorist organizations. "Fighting the War on Terror means fighting on all fronts," Beauprez said. "This bill adds an arrow to our quiver and stops foreign terrorists from taking advantage of American charities." As introduced, the "Terrorist Tax Exemption Suspension Act of 2003" (HR 3002) would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to...

The All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, a very, very liberal church, is being investigated by the IRS to see if their tax exempt status should be removed. The LA Times has been covering this story with the church as a victim. If this had been an evangelical or fundamentalist protestant church the LA Times and the news networks IMO would have taken a different tone, but that's beside the point. For those of you that are interested in this controversy the sermon that caused this controversy is available on-line at: http://www.allsaints-pas.org/all_saints_church.htm You'll need to click on the archives link...

STAFFORD -- This city has 55 religious institutions over seven square miles, and local leaders say enough is enough. "Nobody wants to send a message that we're against religion because we're not," said Leonard Scarcella, who has been mayor for 34 years. Yet Stafford's City Council is considering a zoning ordinance that would ban construction of new religious buildings or expansion of old ones in about half of the city. Congregations would have to get specific use permits from the council to build or expand in the city's other half. Scarcella said the problem is that the churches are in...

<p>WASHINGTON -- With a California court seemingly poised to strike down a longtime housing tax break for ministers, Rep. Jim Ramstad, R-Minn., is preparing legislation to clarify the provision and "prevent America's clergy from facing a devastating tax increase."</p> <p>In a case that could have financial repercussions for every church, synagogue and mosque in the nation, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco announced earlier this month that it is reviewing the constitutionality of the so-called "parsonage" tax exemption.</p>