As it should. Churches should pay taxes like every other business. They should pay the property taxes that pay for the police and fire that protect their houses of worship, and for the roads and bridges the parishioners use to get there, etc.
They should be treated like every other business.....allowed to deduct all the money they use on charitable endeavors from their bottom line, so money spent on misionaries, or food banks, or other charitable endeavors? Charitable deduction.
Even if you want to say OK, non profits shouldn't pay federal or state income taxes, they still should pay property taxes. Why should I have to pay for flood control, but the big megachurch with a shitload more acreage than I have pays nothing?
Sucks about the mega church, but not all churches are mega. My church, a true center for God community and spirituality that has been fighting government overreach and has never shutdown would have to shutter if it was made to pay these taxes. Real churches are not businesses.
As it should. Churches should pay taxes like every other business. They should pay the property taxes that pay for the police and fire that protect their houses of worship, and for the roads and bridges the parishioners use to get there, etc.
They should be treated like every other business.....allowed to deduct all the money they use on charitable endeavors from their bottom line, so money spent on misionaries, or food banks, or other charitable endeavors? Charitable deduction.
Even if you want to say OK, non profits shouldn't pay federal or state income taxes, they still should pay property taxes. Why should I have to pay for flood control, but the big megachurch with a shitload more acreage than I have pays nothing?
Sucks about the mega church, but not all churches are mega. My church, a true center for God community and spirituality that has been fighting government overreach and has never shutdown would have to shutter if it was made to pay these taxes. Real churches are not businesses.