(July 7, 2014 at 3:35 pm)Blackout Wrote:(July 7, 2014 at 3:34 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Certainly if they form a real charity, or a real educational institution, that part of the church should be tax exempt on the same basis as other charities and educational institutes.
The State shouldn't fund churches. I was just saying we can't tax churches like we tax corporations like nike or adidas or even small companies that search mainly for profit
We tax all organizations here, profit or non-profit unless they fit some particular exception. Churches are one of those exceptions. Other exemptions include organizations that are charitable, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering amateur sports competition, or preventing cruelty to children or animals. And even then, we tax the organization's unrelated business activity.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
