by admin | Sep 20, 2022 | History, Tax
The intersection of taxes and religion has been one of the major features of this blog. The controversy over the parsonage exclusion has been the big story there, but there is more. One of my long running story arcs has been the controversy over the constitutionality...
by admin | Mar 20, 2019 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. Men and women doing the same job, but the women end up with more taxable income than the men? Is that the law? I mean why not? After all the Apostle Paul wrote: Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not...
by admin | Oct 27, 2018 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. Back in August, Paul Streckfus in EO Tax Journal 2018-152 surveying the dispute about the tax treatment of clergy housing allowances wrote: “Based on my 45 years of EO tax experience all I can say is that the intersection of...
by admin | Feb 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
One of the issues that I have been following since the beginning of my blogging days is the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s quixotic seeming quest to have the parsonage exclusion (Code Section 107) declared unconstitutional. My devotion to this issue has...
by admin | Dec 15, 2016 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com. Freedom From Religion Foundation’s litigation over the dubious constitutionality of tax-free cash housing allowances for “ministers of the gospel” (Code Section 107(2)) has been chugging along for a while now....
by admin | Nov 20, 2014 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com Nov 20th, 2014 Last year Judge Barbara Crabb ruled that Code Section 107(2) – the parsonage exclusion -, which allows the mega pastors of mega churches to exclude six figure cash housing allowances from their taxable income,...
by admin | Sep 11, 2014 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com Sept 11th, 2014 It seems that the Freedom From Religion Foundation has inadvertently found the way to bring unity to the many disparate religions. FFRF’s credible threat to a major clergy tax benefit, the ability to exclude...
by admin | Sep 11, 2014 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com Sept 11th, 2014 Last November Judge Barbara Crabb ruled that exempting cash housing allowances to “ministers of the gospel” (Code Section 107(2)) from federal income tax was unconstitutional under the First...
by admin | Jul 31, 2013 | Tax
Originally published on Forbes.com July 31st, 2013 Reverend Ricky Williams asked the Tax Court to allow him to exclude $33,126 of his $101,733 compensation as a housing allowance. The Tax Court said no, but if you are not familiar with Code Section 107, you might be...
by admin | Oct 9, 2012 | Tax
In my interview with Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein, I only asked her one tax question that was not covered in the Green Party Platform. The question concerned the parsonage exclusion, Code Section 107. Code Section 107 allows a “minister of...
by admin | Mar 25, 2012 | Tax
Originally Published on forbes.com on March 25th, 2012 ______________________________________ I suppose it is probably my fault that my quirky little tax blog has temporarily transformed into a First Amendment Forum. I’m still inclined to blame Phil Driscoll. The...
by admin | Mar 20, 2012 | Tax
Originally Published on forbes.com on March 20th, 2012 ______________________________________ As noted in the first paragraph, I invited the Freedom From Religion Foundation to submit a guest post on the constitutionality of the parsonage exemption on which I have...
by admin | Jul 5, 2011 | Tax
Originally Published on forbes.com on July 5th,2011 ______________________________________ Most of my posts are based on my own review of original source material, rather than what I read in other blogs. Since I often spend some time on the developments before I...
by admin | Dec 19, 2010 | Tax
Originally published on Passive Activities And Other Oxymorons on December 19,2010, this post commences my fascination with the parsonage exclusion – Code Section 107, which provides for an unlimited exemption from income tax of the housing allowances, in-kind...
by admin | Jul 29, 2010 | Tax
Image by CelticClicker FREEDOM FROM RELIGION FOUNDATION, INC. v. GEITHNER, 105 AFTR 2d 2010-2577 This was originally published on PAOO on July 29th, 2010. This is the beginning of a very long story arc that if it did not come to an end definitely hit a pause when...
