Comments on: Crikey Essay: Churches, tax and deniability http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/22/crikey-essay-churches-tax-and-deniability/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Woodrow http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/22/crikey-essay-churches-tax-and-deniability/#comment-6670 Michael Woodrow Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-6670 Tax-exemption for organisations that perpetrate beliefs in invisible friends in the sky? I would have thought the tax-exemption would have been for organisations that help treat such disorders. Tax-exemption for organisations that perpetrate beliefs in invisible friends in the sky? I would have thought the tax-exemption would have been for organisations that help treat such disorders.

]]> By: AdamC http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/22/crikey-essay-churches-tax-and-deniability/#comment-6671 AdamC Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-6671 Quite clearly, the best way forward in this matter is to tax churches' commercial activities normally, but allow deductions from net taxable income where that income is applied to charitable activities like pastoral care and proselytising. <br /><br />Earnings retained for re-investment or distributed to non-charitable recipients should be taxed, as is the case for other businesses. <br /> Quite clearly, the best way forward in this matter is to tax churches’ commercial activities normally, but allow deductions from net taxable income where that income is applied to charitable activities like pastoral care and proselytising.

Earnings retained for re-investment or distributed to non-charitable recipients should be taxed, as is the case for other businesses.

]]> By: Perry Gretton http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/22/crikey-essay-churches-tax-and-deniability/#comment-6672 Perry Gretton Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-6672 Agreed, together with the introduction of the promised Charities Commission. Agreed, together with the introduction of the promised Charities Commission.

]]> By: Marion Wilson http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/08/22/crikey-essay-churches-tax-and-deniability/#comment-6673 Marion Wilson Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-6673 All politicians who believe the existance of a supernatural being should declare their conflict of interest and refrain from participating in allocation of funding and/or benefits to the representatives of the supernatural beings and their followers. All politicians who believe the existance of a supernatural being should declare their conflict of interest and refrain from participating in allocation of funding and/or benefits to the representatives of the supernatural beings and their followers.

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