Taxing the Church

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: The Federal Constitutional Law on Taxation and Religion A) Murdock and Follett B) Walz C) Texas Monthly D) Jimmy Swaggart Ministries E) Nyquist and Mueller F) Lee G) Conclusion Chapter Two: State Constitutions on Religion and Taxation A) State constitutional exemptions from property taxation B) Interpreting "church" for property tax exemption purposes C) The property tax status of parsonages D) Other state constitutional provisions E) Conclusion Chapter Three: The Internal Revenue Code and Religious Institutions A) The Federal Income Tax B) The Federal Estate and Gift Taxes C) The FICA and Self-employment Taxes D) The Federal Unemployment Tax E) The Federal Health Mandates for Individuals and Employers F) The Code's procedural provisions relative to churches G) Church retirement plans H) Conclusion Chapter Four: State Tax Statutes and Religious Exemptions A) Property Tax Exemption Statutes B) Sales Taxes: Overview C) States subjecting churches to sales taxes as both buyers and sellers D) States exempting churches on sales taxes as both buyers and sellers E) States exempting churches as buyers but not as sellers F) States exempting churches as sellers but not as buyers G) Church sales tax exemption tied to IRS confirmation of income tax exemption H) Sales tax: Summary I) State Income Taxes J) Real Estate Transfer Taxes K) State Unemployment Taxes L) Conclusion Chapter Five: Untangling Entanglement A) The Inevitability of Tax-Related Entanglement: Borderline Entanglement and Enforcement Entanglement in The Courts B) Reducing Borderline Entanglement Through Broader Exemptions or No Exemptions C) Enforcement Entanglement, Property Taxes and General Income Taxes D) Sales, Payroll and Real Estate Conveyance Taxes: Less Prone to Enforcement Entanglement E) The Entangling Taxation of Unrelated Business Incomes F) The Entangling Trade-offs of Unemployment Compensation G) Entanglement, Subsidization, Tax Policy Criteria and the Normative Tax Base H) Why Entanglement Matters I) Conclusion Chapter Six: Parsonages, Parsonage Allowances and the Religious Exemptions From Social Security Taxes and the Health Care Mandate A) The Property Tax Status of Parsonages B) The Income Tax Treatment of Parsonages and Parsonage Allowances: Code Sections 107 and 119 C) Repealing Section 107: Swapping Borderline Entanglement for Enforcement Entanglement D) Swapping One Borderline Entanglement for Another: Section 107 v. Section 119 E) A Broader Possibility: Neither Section 107 nor Section 119 Applies to Religious Employers F) Section 107(2) as a Matter of Tax Policy G) The Constitutionality of the Religious Exemptions From The Social Security Taxes and the Individual Health Care Mandate H) A Final Word on Lemon I) Conclusion Chapter Seven: Other Issues For the Future: Churches' Lobbying, Campaigning, and Sales Taxation A) Section 501(c)(3)'s Bans on Substantial Lobbying and Political Campaigning B) The Controversy C) A Proposal to Protect Internal Church Communications D) Expanding the Sales Tax Obligations of Churches E) Conclusion Chapter Eight: Constitutional and Tax Policy Issues A) The Original Understanding of the Religion Clauses of the First Amendment: Prohibiting a National Church v. Nonpreferentialism v. Separationism B) Exempting Churches From Laws of General Applicability: The Relative Merits of Judicial and Legislative Decisionmaking C) The Criteria Governing Legislative Exemptions from Laws of General Applicability D) The Rhetoric of Separationism E) To Tax or Exempt the Profits of Nonprofits F) Revisiting the Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT) G) Conclusion Conclusion Index

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• Direito constitucional e administrativo
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