The Parsonage, built in 1863 for the neighbouring Dunmore Estate, was badly damaged in the fire.

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The blaze broke out in a first-floor bedroom of the Parsonage, in Dunmore Park, on 5 July.

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They will be returned to the Jane Eyre author's former home in Haworth, which is now the Bronte Parsonage Museum.

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The parsonage exclusion allows ministers to receive some of their compensation in the form of a housing allowance that is exempt from income tax.

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Phil Driscoll could be the poster boy of parsonage exclusion abuse.

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Before 1954, if a church owned a home (parsonage, rectory or manse), its ministers paid less in taxes than those ministers serving in churches that did not own a home.

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Basically his concern is that abuses of the parsonage allowance by religious racketeers will cause public alienation for a relatively modest benefit that can be critical to the viability of small churches.

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Although Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte are closely associated with the parsonage a few miles away in Haworth they were born in Thornton where their father earned his living from 1815 to 1820.

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"The Brontes grew up used to seeing their father's books on the shelves of the parsonage, " says Andrew McCarthy, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in the family's former home in Haworth, West Yorkshire.

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