Re:RE CHURCH OF THE LIVING PRINCIPAL; now OT

[Guest guest]

Just a bit of clarification. Churches are not " licensed " by the IRS as

501©(3). Churches are automatically exempt from federal income tax--

they do not have to register, apply, obtain a corporate charter, etc.

IF they engage in profitable activities that have no relationship to

their religious mission, they have to pay income tax on the profits

from those activities only. IF they engage in certain activities that

have nothing to do with their religious mission, such as lobbying, they

MAY lose their tax exempt status. This is true for all tax exempt

charitable organizations. Churches are tax exempt because they are

religious organizations. If they can no longer be considered religious

organizations because they are actually doing something else, then they

no longer qualify for tax exempt status.

Your church's refusal to provide acknowledgements to its donors does

not really mean anything. As long as your church has not lost its tax

exempt status, anybody that can prove that they made a donation to the

church can deduct it on their tax return (to the extent allowed by IRS,

based on their personal tax situation)

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> Which is the reason the church I attend has not and will not give tax

credit

> for any giving.