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    Churches Should Not Remain Tax Exempt Since 1894, churches in the United States of America (US) have received an official federal income tax exemption, although, unofficially, they have been tax-exempt since the country’s founding. Churches are tax exempt in two major ways—one, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, churches are exempt from paying property tax, and two, donations to churches are tax-deductible for the donator. Because giving churches special exemptions violates the separation

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    With his six book on “knowing how to know” is the “God” of Scientology. Hubbard wanted his creation to be acknowledged as a religious institution and therefore receive all benefits that religions do. One of these benefits is tax exemption on properties. In order to receive tax exempt status the church of scientology fought for years.

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    Tax Abatement Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Tax Abatement Tax abatement is a concept that is often utilized to refer to the situation where the government grants some type of tax reductions, or completely exempts certain entities from paying taxes for a given period of time with the sole aim of stimulating industrial, real estate, or job market development. Freilich, Sitkowski, Mennillo, and Freilich (2012) pointed out that tax-abated redevelopment is important since it provides

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    Charitable organizations may not participate or intervene in any political campaign on behalf of any candidate in office. The violation of engaging in political activities is the loss of the organization’s tax-exempt status. The prohibition of such political activity includes making contributions to a candidate’s political campaign, making endorsements of a candidate, lending employees to work in a political campaign, or providing facilities for use by a candidates.” However, there are certain

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    Taxing Churches Tax exemption acts a principle that mandates organizations to be excluded from contributing taxable pay, this principle has been effective all throughout the existence of churches. Churches are identified as non profit as well as charitable organizations. With the following two labels a fixed as a part of their identify they would be granted with the opportunity to be exonerate from paying particular taxes. With their opportunity to be excluded from contributing taxable money to the

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    The IRC is a section of federal statutory tax law in which income tax and gift taxes, as well as other forms of taxes, are outlined and described in terms of enforcement (Internal Revenue Code). The IRS’s main responsibility includes “exempting nonprofit organization’s from the corporate income tax through verification of the IRC by placing the organization’s into more than 30 classifications that reflect the basis for their tax exemption” (Worth, 24). After being classified as an organization

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    Report to Congress Provides Little Insight on Government-Owned and Private Tax-Exempt and Taxable Hospitals. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released its report to Congress on government-owned and private tax-exempt and taxable hospitals as mandated by Section 9007(e)(1) of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA requires the IRS to annually submit to Congress a report providing data with respect to private tax-exempt, taxable, and government-owned hospitals regarding (1) the levels of

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    Here, again, we see exactly why the government sanctioned religious establishments of our day are hurriedly revising “certain articles” in their constitutions and administrations. Churches that have stopped being churches to become tax-exempt, nonprofit religious corporations have invited, nay, petitioned the wolves to oversee the sheep, thus giving the state consent to exert a legal force through their own policies. Now they must rewrite those policies before having something detestable legally

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    org/program/aravind-eye-care-system-aecs Bennett, A. B. 2013. Nonprofit organization: definition and meaning. Retrieved from http://www.startnonprofitorganization.com/nonprofit-organization-definition-meaning Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service. (2011). Tax exempt for your organization (IRS Publication No. 557) Retrieved from http://www.irs.

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    Tax Research Paper

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    in Certificates of Deposits(CD’s) to state and municipal bonds; the second recommendation given is that you should take out another mortgage as additional capital to also be converted into Municipal bonds. The purpose of which is to receive a double tax benefit offered by taking advantage of both the interest deductions on the new mortgage allowed under

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