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Church transforms vacant land into massive urban garden, donates 65K pounds of food to people in need
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Maybe start paying taxes, on that and all other land they've confiscated.
Churches aren't tax free because they are churches, they are tax free bc they are charities, just like every other charity out there
Frustrating af that hardly any of you understand this.
That’s just wrong. Churches are tax free because they are churches.
Don’t believe me? Go look up a church’s 990… oh, wait… you can’t. Because they don’t have to file them because they are “special” in the eyes of the law. Not just a run of the mill charity.
And yet many churches do choose to file their financial disclosure forms, for transparency sake
And I fully support removing that exemption, I don't want to protect corrupt churches like you assume I do
Which disproves your original claim of “churches aren’t tax free because they are churches”
It doesn't though. They still have to provide charitable services. You are being deliberately dense and obstinate and life is too short to waste on people like you
The IRS directly contradicts what you're saying. You can stop pretending you know what you're talking about now.
So, there isn’t one set of rules for charities and another for Churches? Really?
And how do we know they are providing charitable services, if there’s no way to verify it in their financial statements?