Oregon Tax Court Approves Taxation Of Church Rectory
It would seem that many church rectories or parsonages, to use the homey American term, would flunk the test laid out by the Oregon Tax Court. It will be interesting to see whether this becomes a trend. Parsonages have fallen out of favor with many Protestant denominations where the big tax subsidy is the federal income tax break that exempts cash paid for housing allowances from income tax. The dubious constitutionality of that provision has avoided scrutiny thanks to rulings on nobody having standing to object to it.
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Lu Gauthier of the Boston Tax Institute has given me permission to reproduce his email blasts. BTI is a great value for live tax continuing professional education....
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