Ending God's Tax Exempt Status

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by dar512

Threads like these go on and on because no terms are defined and everyone is using similar words to mean different things.

From a quick google on the subject, a non-profit is defined as "an organization whose primary objective is to support an issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes, without concern for monetary profit."

By that definition, my local Catholic church is a non-profit. It does not exist in order to create a profit and provides a number of valuable services to the community.

this is where you lose me.

[dar512]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

this is where you lose me.

I don't see why it should. Our budgeting process is fairly transparent. Once a year they explain what the expected expenses are for the upcoming period and ask for donations to meet that need. No extra money is asked for. Anything left over at the end of the year rolls over to the next year.