Churches aren't taxed because they are so-called Not-for-Profits.
They don't exist to make a profit and it is profits that are taxed. Now it might be possible to change the law so that these organisations are taxed on their net income but I wonder if you've thought this through.

If you're gunna tax churches you'd have to designate that donations to them would be treated as income. But if that's the case then donations to Greenpeace would also be treated as income. And donations to the Salvos...and farm relief... and the P&C...and women's refuges. See the problem?

If the donations were income then the expenses incurred in 'earning' that income would be deductible - ministers salaries, church upkeep, cost of Bibles, charity work and payments. I'd doubt that many churches on that basis would make a taxable profit.

Greenpeace on the other hand.....

So Belly, do you want to tax all Not-for-profit organisations or just those who disapprove of?

Churches pay tax on salaries?

Brian Houston from Hillsong takes his tiny "salary" from the tax-free bucket of money and his Church appears to purchase all his personal items on his behalf to provide him with a comfortable life of luxury, not to mention the suitcases full of undeclared cash "love offerings" handed over at international speaking events.

Religion is indeed a business and is run like one.
You just have to look at The Vatican or Salt Lake City to see the result of billions of dollars. (Funny how the anti-contraception Catholic Church owns shares in companies that manufactures condoms).

The Federal Government subsidises all private religious schools with taxpayer money.

As far as Halal accreditation being a tax on food, the same applies to Kosher labelled food so why no complaint there?

This is how Kosher labelling was argued against by extreme right wingers back in the sixties -
https://ia802607.us.archive.org/23/items/TheWallyButterworthCollection/KosherFoodBlackmailOfAmericaHousewives.mp3

The details are different but the sentiment is the same.

Another attack on Christianity by an illiterate boofhead who calls everyone not of his way of thinking a 'troll'. He is too stupid to realise that Christian churches and their offshoots save tax payers massive amounts of money with their charitable works, which they do much more efficiently than politicians can do. Make no mistake, when galahs like this rubbish 'faith' they mean Christianity - not Islam and all the other monkey-worshippers and death cults.

The bulk of warped thinking in Australia is anti-Christian, the very basis of Western culture. When the Marxists finally get rid of Christianity with the help of all the bogans who think they are not Christians because they don't go to church, I won't be around to see the Christianophobes get their well-deserved come uppance.

There should be no tax. Tax is theft. Money is slavery.

We should make everything free. With today's technology is it totally achievable.

May I this place has suffered because an insensitive poster once said something others took offense to, it lost much needed income, so while we can name very many groups we do not consider honest faiths lets say we do not, every post is interesting, Josephus,you go out of your way to put words in other people's mouths, maybe because your view needs to bend the truth? yes I KNOW about Halal,do you however know it was just about the same for first testament Christians? that similar rules for food existed in that book for us? that Jews too have such rules? is it JUST POSSIBLE that if my view, tax them all,, gets a start,, that tax on us,, for some times eating a food they do,, will put and end to that too?no faith should not be taxed, no faith ever should in any way tell any one how to live or our government how to govern.

try to be nice this is our last communication, it is my view you are a troll, and not a very bright one, you come here to insult and my leave of absence was driven by one like you,, maybe even you, I got that wrong, will not again answer you nor contribute to your threads Sir get a mirror,hillsong, no better word to describe why we must tax every faith.