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minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·8 days agoSome of them sell services and merchandise. Look up Joel Scott Osteen, dude has mansions and giant “megachurches”.
minus-squarearrow74@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoI am very familiar, but pretty much everything that allows him to embezzle that much money comes special rules that apply to churches and “ministers”. If it were a normal social club the rules would change.
minus-squareFiniteBanjo@feddit.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 days agoWell yes but then every church would have a different tax filing status based on its operations and scale, or in other words “they should have to pay taxes.” Differences without distinction.
Some of them sell services and merchandise. Look up Joel Scott Osteen, dude has mansions and giant “megachurches”.
I am very familiar, but pretty much everything that allows him to embezzle that much money comes special rules that apply to churches and “ministers”.
If it were a normal social club the rules would change.
Well yes but then every church would have a different tax filing status based on its operations and scale, or in other words “they should have to pay taxes.”
Differences without distinction.