Judge Barbara Crabb ruled recently that the exclusion of cash housing allowances from taxable income by members of the clergy ("ministers of the gospel")is unconstitutional. Among the reactions are cries from the clergy that their lives are not really the tax picnic that you might perceive given the tax free housing allowance that they can use to pay deductible mortgage interest and real estate taxes to help shelter the rest of their income. They are right. The tax treatment of clergy is a c...
Judge Barbara Crabb ruled recently that the exclusion of cash housing allowances from taxable income by members of the clergy ("ministers of the gospel")is unconstitutional. Among the reactions are cries from the clergy that their lives are not really the tax picnic that you might perceive given the tax free housing allowance that they can use to pay deductible mortgage interest and real estate taxes to help shelter the rest of their income. They are right. The tax treatment of clergy is a c...
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