Posted on 06/26/2018 6:50:45 AM PDT by GIdget2004
If it has nothing to do with worship, it is taxable
Source article
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/26/republican-tax-law-churches-employees-670362
As far as I am concerned ALL religious establishment should never have been tax exempt since the constitution allows for freedom of religion not SUBSIDIZED religion.
And today pretty much every church and equivalent is extremely political.
This is a tiny loophole that has been closed.
Render under Cesar, folks.
That would have ensured that only large churches would exist. You could have taxed others out of existence.
The pastor at my mother’s church is a wealthy man because of the fringe benefits that the church gives him. I have zero sympathy with the churches on this one.
Why are the religious organizations paying this tax? Most fringe benefits are taxable for the EMPLOYEE, not the employer.
Find ANY group of self labelled “religious” and you can find a racist or homosexual-promoting socialist “preacher” who hates the Trump tax cuts.
Pure agi-prop from The Hill, politico editors for their democrats before the mid terms. They are writing this to split Trump from the evangelicals.
religious groups sold their soul when they chose to abide by tax free status. I don’t see how it’s honoring God to really letting God be in control of their org/church etc, when they submit to governmental gudielines just to maintain tax free status.
I think all non and not for profit status should be done away with because mostly the leaders benefit along with whatever good works they do, otherwise they could not continue to operate if the leaders didn’t benefit enough.
yup!
>>That would have ensured that only large churches would exist. You could have taxed others out of existence.<<
Maybe, maybe not. Churches exist in a marketplace. I their message is compelling then their parishioners will provide.
If a church does ONLY charitable works then they can file as a charitable organization accordingly.
I don’t think churches deserve any special attention and the USC certainly does not provide it.
Multi billion enterprise whining about $75,000 in taxes?
How much did their taxes go down due to the tax cut?
https://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/special-report-what-jewish-federations-do-your-money
The prior law gave some pretty significant tax breaks for ministers. A big one was deductions for housing costs. A church board could stipulate a certain dollar amount of their salary to be considered a housing allowance. The amount could often be twice the actual cost of housing. A partial reason for it was that ministers often host congregants in their homes for church-related activities.
Sorry, I don’t even know what those are.
Eliminate all the exemptions entirely.
Alternately, small churches where the pastor has a day job, and preaches out of his living room, would have no income, and thus no taxes.
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