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GreenStormCloud

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16. He pays IRS & SS & Medicare tax, car taxes, property taxes.

Reply to Le Taz Hot (Reply #12)

Fri Aug 9, 2013, 04:59 PM

Aug 2013

The only thing that is tax exempt is the stuff that is the direct property of the church.

How much the church pays him is none of your business. IRS business, but not yours.

You seem to have bought into the myth that religious figures are completely tax exempt. They aren't.

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