A Bill To End All Religious Tax Exemptions
A Bill to End All Religious Tax Exemptions
Imagine stepping into your church, with their very few accolades supporting its structure, being unable to pay for its electricity, and the products that they need for regular masses. With most of the income coming from the people, it will not fully support the stability of keeping the church intact. The church is at standstill in which they will eventually unable to pay their bills to the fact that now they have to contribute to our nations taxes. Ladies and gentlemen, we are currently facing in our nation’s future that churches or any religious benefactor will have end to their religious tax exemptions. A few problems come to play if this bill gets amended, one, the people who gets supported and rely on the church will have a disadvantage if they will not be exempt any longer, two, the people who contribute to the church, are being doubly taxed, three, small churches already facing turmoil will not exist if they will be faced to pay taxes
Contention 1: People who rely on churches will have a disadvantage.
According to Vincent Becker, Monsignor of the Immaculate Conception Church in Wellsville, NY, the food and clothing programs his church offers would be threatened by a tax burden: "All of a sudden, we would be hit with something we haven't had to face in the past… We base all the things that we do on the fact that we do not have to pay taxes on the buildings." With tax exemptions in play, the services that these churches have will be no longer existent
Contention 2: Double taxation
The late Rev. Dean M. Kelley said, "to tax them again for participation in voluntary organizations from which they derive no monetary gain would be 'double taxation' indeed, and would effectively serve to discourage them from devoting time, money, and energy to organizations which contribute to the up building of the fabric of democracy."
Contention 3: Diminishing of already small churches facing economic issues
A 2010 survey by the
Imagine stepping into your church, with their very few accolades supporting its structure, being unable to pay for its electricity, and the products that they need for regular masses. With most of the income coming from the people, it will not fully support the stability of keeping the church intact. The church is at standstill in which they will eventually unable to pay their bills to the fact that now they have to contribute to our nations taxes. Ladies and gentlemen, we are currently facing in our nation’s future that churches or any religious benefactor will have end to their religious tax exemptions. A few problems come to play if this bill gets amended, one, the people who gets supported and rely on the church will have a disadvantage if they will not be exempt any longer, two, the people who contribute to the church, are being doubly taxed, three, small churches already facing turmoil will not exist if they will be faced to pay taxes
Contention 1: People who rely on churches will have a disadvantage.
According to Vincent Becker, Monsignor of the Immaculate Conception Church in Wellsville, NY, the food and clothing programs his church offers would be threatened by a tax burden: "All of a sudden, we would be hit with something we haven't had to face in the past… We base all the things that we do on the fact that we do not have to pay taxes on the buildings." With tax exemptions in play, the services that these churches have will be no longer existent
Contention 2: Double taxation
The late Rev. Dean M. Kelley said, "to tax them again for participation in voluntary organizations from which they derive no monetary gain would be 'double taxation' indeed, and would effectively serve to discourage them from devoting time, money, and energy to organizations which contribute to the up building of the fabric of democracy."
Contention 3: Diminishing of already small churches facing economic issues
A 2010 survey by the