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cbayer

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36. Yes, you do have income. Everything you collect is income.

Reply to RepublicansRZombies (Reply #35)

Wed Nov 14, 2012, 04:41 PM

Nov 2012

Expenses may be deductible to some extent, but they do not make your income go away.

Non-profit means just that - that you do not make a profit off of the money that you bring in. By definition, you spend it all on whatever it is you do. That gives organizations a tax exempt status. The law would have to be changed to tax all non-profits.

While the RW non-profits that you refer to may have more to lose financially, the poor and disadvantaged have the most to lose overall if the law is changed at this time.

You can not change the law for some and not all.

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Welcome to DU. Are you proposing that all non-profits be taxed if they are cbayer Nov 2012 #25

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Yes, you do have income. Everything you collect is income. cbayer Nov 2012 #36

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