Decision On Clergy Housing Tax Benefit Coming This Summer
So if FFRF wins, this matter becomes a concern for church budgets in 2019. I’m hoping there will be a “Make Our Pastor Whole” movement. My experience with small congregation governance is that generally, the problem is people thinking things should be able to run with them dropping the same amount in the plate that their grandparents did forgetting that grandma baked nine million cookies to sell and grandpa painted the church himself. Maybe this will serve as a wake-up call.
IRS Scandal Daily Coverage: The Final Chapter
Ms. Kabbany’s comment on the series is perhaps indicative of the most unfortunate effect of the TaxProf’s method as she mentions the “long list of blog entries” being a “sight to behold”. That comment is an indication to me that Ms. Kabbany has not actually taken the trouble, as have I, to read all the entries. To her, there are a thousand nails in the IRS coffin. What I see is less than a dozen nails pounded on numerous times and then pried up and pounded on a few more times and a lot of folks using the occasion of the wake to talk about other things.
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.