My news feed popped up an article about should churches pay taxes. His trigger was apparently #TaxTheChurch has been trending on Twitter since mid July. He also seems biased for it to happen.
Few random thoughts:
I can't come up with a Bible passage that says a church shouldn't pay taxes if the government requires it.
This would certainly be hard one churches struggling to survive financially. It probably would cause a wave of closings. On the other hand, I think a lot of them would probably fail anyways.
I think under equal protection laws, you couldn't do this to just Christian churches. I think you would have to remove taxes on all religious groups.
If a church is viewed as a group people with a common purpose, how is that different from a group like Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, etc.? They might get swept into this. This could end up becoming a removal of all tax exemptions.
Frankly at this time, I don't see enough political will to start taxing churches.
Article here: https://theconversation.com/amid-cal...-taxman-164988
Few random thoughts:
I can't come up with a Bible passage that says a church shouldn't pay taxes if the government requires it.
This would certainly be hard one churches struggling to survive financially. It probably would cause a wave of closings. On the other hand, I think a lot of them would probably fail anyways.
I think under equal protection laws, you couldn't do this to just Christian churches. I think you would have to remove taxes on all religious groups.
If a church is viewed as a group people with a common purpose, how is that different from a group like Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, etc.? They might get swept into this. This could end up becoming a removal of all tax exemptions.
Frankly at this time, I don't see enough political will to start taxing churches.
Article here: https://theconversation.com/amid-cal...-taxman-164988
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