Chicago Pastors Fight Atheist Effort to Impose Nearly $1B in Taxes on Churches
April 20, 2018
April 20, 2018
WASHINGTON, April 20 -- The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty issued the following news release:
Pastor Chris Butler, a South Side Chicago pastor, asked a federal appeals court Thursday to end a discriminatory lawsuit that would devastate his community and subject churches across the country to almost $1 billion in new taxes. In Gaylorv. Mnuchin, an atheist group is suing the IRS to end the parsonage allowance, a 64-year-old federal tax provision used by churches, mosques, and synag . . .
Pastor Chris Butler, a South Side Chicago pastor, asked a federal appeals court Thursday to end a discriminatory lawsuit that would devastate his community and subject churches across the country to almost $1 billion in new taxes. In Gaylorv. Mnuchin, an atheist group is suing the IRS to end the parsonage allowance, a 64-year-old federal tax provision used by churches, mosques, and synag . . .