God and the Irs - Accommodating Religious Practice in United States Tax Law

Informationen zum Autor Samuel D. Brunson teaches tax and business law at Loyola University, Chicago. He has published extensively about the federal income tax. In addition, he blogs extensively about tax and religion and, often, both together. Professor Brunson sits on the boards of two non-profit organizations and is on the organizing committee of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society Faculty Group. Klappentext Provides a coherent way to think about the intersection of religious practice and taxes. Zusammenfassung This book is for people interested in tax policy! people interested in the way religion functions in society! and people interested in the intersection between law and religion. It illustrates how law interacts with religious practice and the way in which religious practice can bend to law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Religion and the state; 2. On making the tax law; 3. Accommodation in the intersection of religious practice and the tax law; 4. Taxing citizens of the Kingdom of God; 5. Housing clergy; 6. Neither a borrower nor a lender be; 7. Deductible contribution or purchase of religious benefit; 8. A right to tithe?; 9. Without purse, scrip, or taxes; 10. Religious communitarians; 11. A framework for religious tax accommodation.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel D. Brunson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781316629550
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62955-0
• No. of pages: 266
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Finance, Politics & government, Politics and government, Public finance, Constitution: government & the state, Public finance and taxation, Constitution: government and the state