[Sybeck1]

Desoto county will gladly welcome you Bellevue Baptist!

[Skulllspitter]

Robert Lipscomb, director of the city's Division of Housing and Community Development, estimates that 30 percent of properties inside Memphis are tax exempt, including government buildings, churches, hospitals, nonprofits ...

Sell some government buildings - raise money and increase tax base.

[1010RD]

This is a good thing. Too many non-profits benefit from the system. If they suffered along with us then we wouldn’t see our taxes rise so high.

The Feds should do the same thing. There are plenty of massive endowments that exist just to enrich the staff and owners. That wasn’t the purpose of the non-profit tax exemption.

[FormerLib]

Any such payments would likely result in the charity budgets of the churches being reduced and the city will not be able to provide those same services for the same amount of money; they’ll hire employees who will never be as motivated as the church volunteers.

[Snow Eagle]

Camel’s nose under the tent.

[bill1952]

Taxation of any recognized church is unlawful as a matter of Constitutional Law.

Taxation of a bona fide tax exempt company organized and recognized under IRS Section 501 (c)3 is unlawful as a matter of Federal law under any circumstance.