Pilot To Black Panther To Pastor Calls For Financial Transparency In Churches
Pastor Jones wants churches to file 990s for a different reason. He believes that publishing the salaries and housing allowances of Prosperity Preachers, who often ordain family members, would wake people up to the abuses of those ministries. His main reason is for the good of the churches, something that FFRF is, at best, indifferent about.
Benefit Of Clergy – Why Special Tax Treatment For Ministers Needs To Go
What we really need is the Clergy Tax Reform Act Of 2014. The Act would repeal Code Section 107 in its entirety and the provisions in the withholding, social security, and self-employment sections dealing with ministers. Essentially, clergy would be treated like everybody else. According to Reverend William Thornton, many moderately compensated clergy would feel fine about this solution.
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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.