G'day All,
At 06:30 PM 10/06/04 +1000, Clare Pascoe Henderson wrote:
... but I personally have a big gripe with churches being allowed tax-exempt status on the basis of being charities, when they actually function as businesses.
Generally speaking churches do not have charity status, although they do get various tax concessions. This means that donations to churches are not universally tax-deductible, only when they meet specific criteria.
The RSPCA for example is a charity and so all donations are tax-deductible - whether the money is used to run animal shelters or to fund illegal "rescue missions" on poultry farms. And the RSPCA definitely functions as a business.
Which I guess leaves open the question of how appropriate are these concessions in particular instances, and whether they could be better targeted.
Kind regards, Lindsay.
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