Ridding the National Deficit

[Sanity personified]

Holy Cow, I jusr read my post. Hence forth, I am practicing sobriety.

[Logic please]

Originally Posted by Sanity personified

Holy Cow, I jusr read my post. Hence forth, I am practicing sobriety.

Don't do that, not as interesting

[GodwinGrey]

You must give the churches credit for audacity. Not only do they avoid taxes - they criticize people who avoid taxes. That's a cool bluff dontcha think?

http://www.londonsummit.gov.uk/en/jo...position-paper

[Logic please]

Originally Posted by GodwinGrey

You must give the churches credit for audacity. Not only do they avoid taxes - they criticize people who avoid taxes. That's a cool bluff dontcha think?

http://www.londonsummit.gov.uk/en/jo...position-paper

@Godwin: thanks for the link...

My first take - crikey, proper paragraph breaks anyone?

I suppose that's one good thing about religious dudes - being outright hypocrites just doesn't pose a problem for them, like it does for most thinking people....

And they want to lecture everyone else about ethics? If they're so concerned about tax havens, why don't they voluntarily give their own favoured tax status up, for the common good of society?

[Quintin]

If your raison d’etre is advertising and selling your product are you still a charity?
Case in point..
World Vision is an international partnership of Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in working with the poor and oppressed *to promote human transformation,* seek justice, and bear witness to the good news of the Kingdom of God.

This is not a charity it is an advertising company.

[RobertCWhite]

I understand that the govenrment would be hesitant to remove tax concessions on all religions because of its electoral unpopularity (although it hasn't seemed to bother them alienting the mining community).

However I don't think it would unrealistic or even unpopular to keep the charitable side of religions tax free but tax their business enterprises in exactly the same manner in which all other enterprises are taxed within Australia.

Logic will get you nowhere I guess...

Robert C White