This chapter reviews the history and literature on religion and taxes. It discusses recent surveys of the not-for-profit sector and contention over the definition of religion for tax purposes. Since religion has changed during the era of neoliberalism, we have to think about it differently. We ...
The Methodist Hospital System: Tax Exemption and Charitable Responsibilities of Not-for-Profit Hospitals. The case also brings into sharp relief the value of having tax-exempt status and the social and political expectations that accompany the exemption. In ... Bain,E Craig,Blankley,... - 《Iss...
For example, religious institutions, along with other charitable or nonprofit organizations, have traditionally been given tax exemptions. This practice, even when applied to religious organizations, has been deemed constitutional because the legislative aim of a property tax exemption is not to advance ...
there is a less restrictive method in the form of the Department of Health and Human Services exemption for non-profit religious organizations, which the Court considered possible and mandatory to be applied to for-profit corporations such as Hobby Lobby. Furthermore, the Court held that this dec...
The Supreme Court’s decision in favor of Hobby Lobby (number 106 on the 2016 Forbes list of the nation’s top private companies) specifically cited its “closely held” status as a qualification for its exemption from the ACA contraceptive mandate. ...
Internal Revenue Code (IRC) of 1954, “Corporations…organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable…or educational purposes” are entitled to tax exemption. Until 1970 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) granted tax-exempt status to all private institutions independent of their racial ...
Accusing the majority of ignoring the “disadvantages that religion-based opt-outs impose on others,” she asserted that “the exemption sought by Hobby Lobby and Conestoga would override significant interests of the corporations’ employees and covered dependents,” and it “would deny legions of wo...
“out of town” when the government came to take the census and collect taxes. Indeed, traveling to one’s ancestral home would not allow pilgrims to “apply themselves to the farming for which they are responsible.” Rather, residents under Roman rule were to go to theirpresenthomes so ...
Most religious accommodations - from legalization of peyote for sacramental use to the ministerial exemption that prevents government from interfering with employment practices of religious groups - enjoy broad public...
For example, religious institutions, along with other charitable or nonprofit organizations, have traditionally been given tax exemptions. This practice, even when applied to religious organizations, has been deemed constitutional because the legislative aim of a property tax exemption is not to advance ...