Did you know that churches are tax exempt? The churches status 501(c)(3) prevents them from paying certain federal taxes, property taxes, and sales taxes. Throughout history, churches have been tax exempted for a few reasons. In the beginning, they were deemed holy ground and were not taxed because of it. Later, the churches merged with the throne and were not taxed because they were part of the government. Even today churches are tax exempt because they were “grandfathered” in that way. Since they don’t pay taxes today more are taken out in our taxes to act as a welfare supplement for the churches. It’s not right for the people to be used by the church as an income. That is why I say Take away the tax-exempt status of the Church! For centuries, the church has been exempted from taxes because it is deemed to be on holy grounds. Genesis 47:26 is the first good example showing that churches were free of taxation. This story tells of a priest that is exempt from paying the Pharaoh’s land tax. The priests land was not taxed because it was deemed “Gods land”. “Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt to this day, that Pharaoh should have …show more content…
In the medieval ages, the Roman Catholic church was entwined with the English throne. Therefore, the church was exempt from taxation. The church was not taxed because if the government were to tax the church then they would be taxing themselves. The marriage of the English throne and the Church is the main reasons our forefathers stated this in our constitution, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. Basically, they wanted the Church to separate from the state and become its own entity. However, the phrase “separation of Church and State” is nowhere to be found in our constitution. Because of this, church and state are separate but the tax exemption was “grandfathered” into our common