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Although the IRS often sets churches to 501(c)(3) status as default tax status, Safstrom said, based on her reading of the law, churches in the complaint would likely receive the political ...
The home must actually be used as a home by the clergy. The allowance cannot exceed the fair rental value of the home, furnishings, appurtenances, and utilities. [4] [5] [6] Clergy may legitimately include housing costs such as cost of buying or renting a home, real estate taxes, mortgage interest, condo or co-op fees, homeowners association dues, heat, electricity, basic telephone service ...
In parts of the United States Code, the word "church" is defined so as to include not just a church in the ordinary narrow sense of the word, but additionally such things as an "association of churches". [7] [8] Like any church, an association of churches must satisfy specific requirements in order to become and remain tax exempt. [9]
A church may have a significant number of people associate themselves with the church on a regular basis, even if the church does not have a traditional established list of individual members. [54] In order to qualify as a tax-exempt church, church activities must be a significant part of the organization's operations. [55] [56]
With the IRS agent's concerns unassuaged, the agency initiated a church tax examination in September and in February 2022 issued summonses to Kaw Valley and Fiserv, a credit card processor in ...
A right-wing activist group’s reliance on evangelical churches for Republican get-out-the-vote efforts could land the congregations in hot water with the IRS, legal experts say.
Churches and religious non-profits are something of a special case, because the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids the government making a law "respecting an establishment of religion," and also forbids "prohibiting the free exercise thereof [that is, of religion]." The First Amendment originally bound only the U.S. Federal ...
Churches and associated corporations are automatically considered tax-exempt and are not required to apply for and obtain recognition of exempt status from the IRS. Donors are allowed to claim a charitable deduction for donations to a church that meets the section 501(c)(3) requirements, even though the church has neither sought nor received ...