Are religious organizations constitutionally exempt from taxation

Are religious organizations constitutionally exempt from taxation?

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evince said:
Dixie thinks many things that are untrue
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Dixie said:
Tax on religious institutions, is a defacto tax on the 1st Amendment. Congress shall make NO LAW prohibiting the free exercise of religion. The exercise is no longer "free" once it is taxed. It would be the equivalent of saying you must pay a tax in order to cast a vote.

I certainly hope, if and when this idea does come up, it is proposed by a Democrat, so the Republicans can reap the huge political rewards for the stupidity.
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Here's his argument. What do you think?
 
evince said:
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Nonprofit-Law-2266/history-tax-exempt-orgs.htm

It would seem not
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did you read your link?

Churches were openly and uniformly spared taxation.
This practice has been sustained throughout the nation’s history—not only at
the federal but at the state and local levels as well, most significantly with
property taxation.
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this is a great case if you really want to understand this topic:

WALZ v. TAX COMMISSION OF CITY OF NEW YORK , 397 U.S. 664 (1970)


The grant of a tax exemption is not sponsorship since the government does not transfer part of its revenue to churches but simply abstains from demanding that the church support the state. No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries, or hospitals into arms of the state or put employees 'on the public payroll.' There is no genuine nexus between tax exemption and establishment of religion.

It is significant that Congress, from its earliest days, has viewed the Religion Clauses of the Constitution as authorizing statutory real estate tax exemption to religious bodies.
 
Mojo said:
So why would the use of the word "free" in the Second Amendment be subject to a different interpretation, logically?
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why the heck are you continually bringing his arguments from another thread here and then replying to them? why not reply to them there....

troll
 
 
Mojo said:
"Dixie" claims otherwise, if I understood his position correctly.

He says that the word "free" in the First Amendment guarantees churches freedom from taxation, I believe.
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The power to tax is the power to destroy. Hence the 1st Amendment freedom aspect.
 
Threedee said:
The power to tax is the power to destroy. Hence the 1st Amendment freedom aspect.
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The Supreme Court ruled on the question in Jimmy Swaggart Ministries v. Board of Equalization of California (1990)


"...there is no constitutional protections for tax exemptions for religious organizations. If governments provide tax exemptions to other non-profit groups, they cannot deny the same exemptions to some groups based solely on the existence of religious affiliation. However, governments are not required to provide tax exemptions generally or special tax exemptions available only to religious organizations..."

http://atheism.about.com/library/decisions/tax/bldec_SwaggartCalif.htm

I'd be interested in knowing if any one has any other pertinent information.
 
Mojo said:
The Supreme Court ruled on the question in Jimmy Swaggart Ministries v. Board of Equalization of California (1990)


"...there is no constitutional protections for tax exemptions for religious organizations. If governments provide tax exemptions to other non-profit groups, they cannot deny the same exemptions to some groups based solely on the existence of religious affiliation. However, governments are not required to provide tax exemptions generally or special tax exemptions available only to religious organizations..."

http://atheism.about.com/library/decisions/tax/bldec_SwaggartCalif.htm

I'd be interested in knowing if any one has any other pertinent information.
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i've posted it, but you continue to pretend you're ignoring me....unlike you, i'm not scared to debate you so i will respond to you even though you're scared to debate me

nice job legion troll...same MO and let's not forget that rep you gave me when you first joined...wherein you mocked the board and me about legion troll...

:rolleyes:
 
Article I, Section 2, US Constitution

"Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."

"Dixie" says "free" means free from taxation.
 
Mojo said:
Article I, Section 2, US Constitution

"Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."

"Dixie" says "free" means free from taxation.
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must continue to pretend i have yurt on ignore and that i didn't run around the interwebs creating users at multiple boards and trying to pass myself off as him
 
Mojo said:
Article I, Section 2, US Constitution

"Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."

"Dixie" says "free" means free from taxation.
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No, Dixie never said that is the only thing "free" can ever mean in any usage, Dixie gave you 36 various definitions of the word, and correctly informed your stubbornly ignorant ass, that any of those definitions could apply, depending on how the word is used. YOU have insisted that Dixie said something outrageous and absurd, because you are a lying dishonest fucktarded piece of dog shit, who can't open his mouth without lies spilling out. ...But I digress.
 
I don't give speeches. And if the speeches are of a political or religious nature (the purpose of free speech), then they should not be taxed, however ridiculous the fee may happen to be.
 
the Supreme Court has in fact ruled that religious organizations are protected against taxation by the constitution.....it specifically says so in the first link Evince listed in the thread....
 
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