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N.Y. high school students help prepare taxes through volunteer program
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Mar 23, 2019
Student volunteers help low-income people file their tax returns saving them money.
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Faith groups could be taxed on transit, parking benefits for employees
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Nov 15, 2018
Leaders of a diverse group of faiths, including the Catholic Church, and the heads of religious nonprofit organizations are urging Congress to repeal a change in the Internal Revenue Code that would tax houses of worship and other nonprofits for parking and transit benefits they provide to their employees.
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Proposed IRS rule change might hit donations for Catholic school tuition
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Oct 25, 2018
The Internal Revenue Service is proposing a rule change that would impact about 30 percent of the student population in the Catholic schools of the Archdiocese of Dubuque.
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California priest who embezzled donations gets prison time, $1.9 million fine
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- Oct 5, 2017
A priest in California will spend three years in jail after being convicted of embezzling over $1 million. Prosecutors said he deposited 14 checks from parishioners into his personal account while he was pastor, although his lawyer argues he was not depositing the money for personal benefit.
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Religious Freedom: Trump targeting IRS rule on churches
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- May 4, 2017
After promising to “utterly destroy” the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits churches and tax-exempt groups from endorsing political candidates, President Trump is planning to sign an executive order asking the IRS to use “maximum enforcement discretion” over the regulation. Though some consider this a first step for religious freedom, others believe it to be “very weak tea.”
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‘Destroy’ the Johnson Amendment? Trump’s rhetoric meets reality
- Church in the US, Commentary, Religion News Service
- Feb 18, 2017
Some of the nation’s largest and most prominent denominations, from the Roman Catholic Church to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to the Mormons, specifically bar or strongly discourage their clergy and churches from endorsing or campaigning for candidates. Any change to the Johnson Amendment wouldn’t affect those strictures.
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