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Anonymous wrote:What is the reason for churches not paying taxes ?
If they are giving some to charities that should be the only tax deductible.

What would they pay taxes on?

Income from what ever source.

Churches don't have income. What source are you thinking of?

Income from donations will be one.

Why would donations be taxed? When I donate to the Sierra Club, or to my alma maters, they don't pay taxes on that money that they receive.

Can you think of any entities where tax-deductible donations are taxed as income for the recipient entity?

[crickets...]

This is about prosperity pastor’s with mega churches who collect huge amounts of money by fleecing the gullible.

I don't like mega churches any more than you do, but you're painting with a very broad brush, and in your nonsensical rantings, lumping in all religious institutions.

Lots of nonprofits fleece gullible people so that their leaders can live large. Most of them are not churches.

In this case we should find a way to tax them.

tax whom, specifically?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the reason for churches not paying taxes ?
If they are giving some to charities that should be the only tax deductible.

What would they pay taxes on?

Income from what ever source.

Churches don't have income. What source are you thinking of?

Income from donations will be one.

Why would donations be taxed? When I donate to the Sierra Club, or to my alma maters, they don't pay taxes on that money that they receive.

Can you think of any entities where tax-deductible donations are taxed as income for the recipient entity?

[crickets...]

This is about prosperity pastor’s with mega churches who collect huge amounts of money by fleecing the gullible.

I don't like mega churches any more than you do, but you're painting with a very broad brush, and in your nonsensical rantings, lumping in all religious institutions.

Lots of nonprofits fleece gullible people so that their leaders can live large. Most of them are not churches.

In this case we should find a way to tax them.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the reason for churches not paying taxes ?
If they are giving some to charities that should be the only tax deductible.

What would they pay taxes on?

Income from what ever source.

Churches don't have income. What source are you thinking of?

Income from donations will be one.

Why would donations be taxed? When I donate to the Sierra Club, or to my alma maters, they don't pay taxes on that money that they receive.

Can you think of any entities where tax-deductible donations are taxed as income for the recipient entity?

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T[b]his is about prosperity pastor’s with mega churches who collect huge amounts of money by fleecing the gullible.

Yeah, we get it, OP,, even with typos. But you are talking about the 1 percent of pastors.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the reason for churches not paying taxes ?
If they are giving some to charities that should be the only tax deductible.

What would they pay taxes on?

Income from what ever source.

Churches don't have income. What source are you thinking of?

Income from donations will be one.

Why would donations be taxed? When I donate to the Sierra Club, or to my alma maters, they don't pay taxes on that money that they receive.

Can you think of any entities where tax-deductible donations are taxed as income for the recipient entity?

[crickets...]

This is about prosperity pastor’s with mega churches who collect huge amounts of money by fleecing the gullible.

I don't like mega churches any more than you do, but you're painting with a very broad brush, and in your nonsensical rantings, lumping in all religious institutions.

Lots of nonprofits fleece gullible people so that their leaders can live large. Most of them are not churches.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the reason for churches not paying taxes ?
If they are giving some to charities that should be the only tax deductible.

What would they pay taxes on?

Income from what ever source.

Churches don't have income. What source are you thinking of?

Income from donations will be one.

Why would donations be taxed? When I donate to the Sierra Club, or to my alma maters, they don't pay taxes on that money that they receive.

Can you think of any entities where tax-deductible donations are taxed as income for the recipient entity?

[crickets...]

This is about prosperity pastor’s with mega churches who collect huge amounts of money by fleecing the gullible.

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Anonymous wrote:Clergy pay income taxes on their incomes, like anyone else.

pastors do clergy do not

Please read the thread. I explained for lay people what is and isn’t taxable.

If you have a reference for a way we don’t have to pay tax on my husband’s income, please do share! I’m sure his church and our accountant (who specializes in ministers taxes) would also love to know!

I mistyped priests don’t.

Secular/diocesan priests do not vow poverty and are taxed (with some occupational adjustments) like anyone else.

“Order” priests (Franciscans, Dominicans, etc.) do vow poverty and hence (at least as far as they and the Order are concerned) have no claim to their earnings, which belong to the Order. I didn’t really look very far into it, but at least some cases seem to turn on who the religious is working for (an Order entity or something else) and who the checks are made out to (the individual or the Order).

So some priests definitely have potential tax liability but others may not depending on circumstances.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the reason for churches not paying taxes ?
If they are giving some to charities that should be the only tax deductible.

What is the reason for colleges and universities not paying taxes?

They are non-profit

As are churches.

But some are for profit

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Anonymous wrote:What is the reason for churches not paying taxes ?
If they are giving some to charities that should be the only tax deductible.

What is the reason for colleges and universities not paying taxes?

They are non-profit

Non profit is a tax designation.
Hospitals, Universities and churches.
But the executive's make the money.

Anonymous wrote:It's why I have nothing to do with those churches. They are all grifters. Osteen even *looks* like a grifter.

For the 80th time, Olsteen has sold multiple books.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the reason for churches not paying taxes ?
If they are giving some to charities that should be the only tax deductible.

What would they pay taxes on?

Income from what ever source.

Churches don't have income. What source are you thinking of?

Income from donations will be one.

Why would donations be taxed? When I donate to the Sierra Club, or to my alma maters, they don't pay taxes on that money that they receive.

Can you think of any entities where tax-deductible donations are taxed as income for the recipient entity?

[crickets...]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the reason for churches not paying taxes ?
If they are giving some to charities that should be the only tax deductible.

What would they pay taxes on?

Income from what ever source.

Churches don't have income. What source are you thinking of?

Income from donations will be one.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the reason for churches not paying taxes ?
If they are giving some to charities that should be the only tax deductible.

What is the reason for colleges and universities not paying taxes?

They are non-profit

As are churches.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the reason for churches not paying taxes ?
If they are giving some to charities that should be the only tax deductible.

What would they pay taxes on?

Income from what ever source.

Churches don't have income. What source are you thinking of?

It's why I have nothing to do with those churches. They are all grifters. Osteen even *looks* like a grifter.

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Anonymous wrote:What is the reason for churches not paying taxes ?
If they are giving some to charities that should be the only tax deductible.

What is the reason for colleges and universities not paying taxes?

They are non-profit

So are churches.