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The paid church tax is deductable in year of paying and reduces the taxable income. Since 2015, private companies have to take part at the "church tax deduction procedure" ("Kirchensteuerabzugsverfahren"). This should ensure, that also shareholder of private companies pay church taxes on dividends. [13]
On November 5, 2007, United States Senator Chuck Grassley announced an investigation into the tax-exempt status of six ministries under the leadership of Benny Hinn, Paula White, Eddie L. Long, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, and Kenneth Copeland by the United States Senate Committee on Finance.
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 ...
The church has apparently hired a lawyer and is hoping to fix the title issue. “We should not be taxed,” Williams said. “We are a church. We’ve been known to be a ministry.” What to read ...
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case about whether a charitable group linked with the Catholic Church can claim a religious exemption from Wisconsin’s unemployment tax system.
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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 ...
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