I'm in favor of reduced taxes for religious organizations, but not tax-free. Too many of them get involved in politics, which is not sticking only with religion. Perhaps more importantly, many religious organizations have lots of assets and money, well above what's needed to fulfill their religious obligations, so why not share some of that with the general public?
Nope, not if its for any type of political gain. If you are truly non profit, I don't want to see you fly in on a private jet you purchased with non profit funds.
I think there should be a clause that the money is used for materials or for taxes, but pastoral salaries should get taxed if they make more than $60,000 a year.
Generally speaking, yes. But once religious institutions start spending for political reasons, then they should automatically forfeit their tax exempt status.
I think almost all churches operate not for profit. They do have to pay their employees wages and social security. Usually if they have a surplus of donations and offerings over the year that money is applied to ministries. And very little is left over so my answer is no let them remain tax exempt
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Obviously. What you are forgetting is that they are effectively non profit charities. Hence you cannot tax them on a profit they are not making anyway.
That's before you get into their community and so social work that fills the void government can't.
Interesting concept. My daughter used to go to a "mega-church" wherein the "small group" in which she was placed had about 300-400 members! That's the whole membership of our church! I'm sure that one would get taxed. They even have a series of "cafe windows" where you can buy food- just like in a Food Court in a shopping mall!
Nope. If they cannot afford anything, they don't deserve it. I shouldn't have to pay MORE because people want to compare clothing at a weekly book fan club meeting.
Places if worship especially islamic should have government oversight to monitor what is being taught to followers & if its not acceptable shut down and the immams jailed and attendee’s sent to reintegration camps.
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