RE: Should Churches Remain Tax-Exempt?
December 12, 2014 at 9:28 am
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2014 at 9:43 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The first amendment does not grant tax exemption to churches, nor does it require that such an exemption be granted. The first amendment isn't even the reason that -state and local- governments decided...early on, to grant this exemption......even now, churches are not automatically exempt, nor is their continued exemption assured once acquired. They must meet the requirements, they must follow the rules. This is tax code shit (the federal bit - though there is a slippery slope SC decision from the 70's..I think..which made it difficult to investigate and prosecute exempt churches when they are suspected of a crime), what is or is not eligible for exemption - why- and what it may do. That some "churches" sleazed their way into that set and now abuse it is unsurprising - but it's really just run of the mill fraud/evasion - not an issue of constitutional rights.
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