Belly, If they do not make a taxable profit, what are you taxing? Large Churches you think might be profitable have paid staff who themselves pay personal tax.

Some Churches [meaning people] pay for development in 3rd World countries, like schools and hospitals and drinking water and goats for milk and chooks for eggs and seed for crops. Which half the people in the Church I attend do. These gifts are not being made or claimed by the Church as tax deductable, they are given by persons as are your gift to a local community service or charity. Or do you not give to services like Royal Flying Doctor, Fred Hollows, Rescue Services or Fire Brigade etc because you believe they should also pay tax. Mean spirited I say!

//Or do you not give to services like Royal Flying Doctor, Fred Hollows, Rescue Services or Fire Brigade etc because you believe they should also pay tax. Mean spirited I say!//

You've really got the wrong end of the stick on this one, haven't you? Nobody objects to genuine charities, mate. What people have a problem with is swindlers, crooks and cheats who take advantage of a well-intentioned tax provision to fill their coffers with money that won't be spent on charity.

If Churches are paying for development projects in poverty-stricken countries, that's proper charity. No need for taxation. If, on the other hand, they're spending vast sums on building mega-churches and staging Christian rock festivals whilst donating a token amount of their obscene wealth to charity, it seems to me that they're mostly interested in self-promotion to grow their brand which is the behaviour of a business rather than a charity. So tax them like you would any other corporate entity.

See, it's not that complicated. You just follow the money: is the Church just a conduit through which the money flows to those in need, or does the buck stop with the Church and go no further because they're keeping it for themselves? If it's the latter, then tax them.

Josephus ever considered it may be Christians who think like you who are driving so many away from that faith?
You dig ditches around your own belief but refuse to see the American deep southern Christian Churches are not true Christians, put pty ltd after their names it would be more honest, are you aware the exclusive brethren run that faith as a business? do you think scientology is a true faith? are your views offering the same protection for Asia's many differing faiths?

Belly.

Watching you and Josephes talk back and forth, one question remains. If faiths are already being taxed, what more are you asking for?

Not-now.soon it is my view we are talking about income tax,as we see pay as you earn pay, and wait for what may be forever to see multi nationals pty ltd pay, an every one pays, the same rate, tax no one can avoid surely the current laws about faiths and tax explain them selves, thread has gone on too long, maybe but will answer when asked