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Permalink Reply by Jerry Wesner on December 28, 2012 at 5:18pm

Sounds like something that should have been done whenever the law establishing this preferred treatment went into effect.  Why should a "magic guy in the sky" non-profit be treated differently from, say, a "flying spaghetti machine" non-profit? 

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Permalink Reply by GOD'aye on January 31, 2013 at 2:22am

Though churches are not "Non-Profit Organizations" in any form.

Their charities may be non-profit, but the churches themselves do make a massive profit.

Tithing is an income stream, not a donation it is in fact a tax by the church. So all churches that reap income from tithes should pay tax on the income from those tithes.

Also churches encourage victims, err members to will their properties and possessions over to the church on their death.  All such properties gained by the church should be taxed.

That's in the name of fairness!

Aye M8!    :-D

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Permalink Reply by Humble Pie on February 2, 2013 at 9:14am

Would you tax their income or their holdings or both?  Personally, I would just go for putting them under normal corporate tax structure, which would mean a little of each, unless they wanted to go to the effort of holding their cash offshore.

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