Why should churches of any kind be tax exempt?
“Religions” aren’t tax exempt anymore than Academic Majors or Artistic Movements are tax exempt. Religious ORGANIZATIONS **may** be tax exempt, but only if they meet the specified criteria for tax-exempt organizations in a nation’s tax-code. The key requirement is that they are non-profit organizations, i.e., they have no owners and thus pay no dividends (profit shares) to them. (All paid clergy, however, are subject to personal taxes, though most countries don’t tax the income of monastics and mendicants (under a vowe of poverty) so long as the income (1) accrues from religious, educational, medical, or other “good works” activities, and (2) is held in common by the religious brotherhood which is as a group involved in recognized good works/charitable activities.) However, to be tax-exempt in the USA and most other jurisdictions, and non-profit organization must be engaged in a recognized exempt purposes set forth in their tax codes: exempt purposes are: charitable, religious, educati
