Ministers are allowed to exclude the portion of their compensation designated as a housing allowance from their taxable income.
The parsonage exclusion allows ministers to receive some of their compensation in the form of a housing allowance that is exempt from income tax.
It is paying some of its officers a housing allowance and they are suing along with FFRF because of the unequal treatment they are receiving.
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Minister Philip Driscoll received a designated amount of his total reasonable compensation as a housing allowance, which he divided to provide two homes, rather than one, more expensive home.
The idea that Joe Sixpack is paying taxes and Phil Driscoll is being given tax breaks for money he uses to pay for vacation homes is both abhorrent and absurd to this retired SBC pastor who continues to receive part of his retirement in the form of a housing allowance.
The Court of Claims expanded the convenience of the employer doctrine by holding that a cash housing allowance paid to military officers also qualified under the doctrine.
Commissioner, 224 F.2d 377 (8th Cir. 1955), the appellate court expressly relied on the convenience of the employer doctrine and Section 22(b)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 to allow a minister to exclude from taxable income a cash housing allowance.
In her new place she will also receive a modest monthly housing allowance from the city.
Under their original structure, a board could have approved a salary and housing allowance for the pastor.
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Augie Boto, Frank Page, the SBC Executive Committee and our favorite SBC lobbyist, Richard Land, ought to be proactive on this matter and find a way to support legislation that will preserve the Housing Allowance in a reasonable fashion while excluding the ridiculous abuses, legal though they may be, by people like Phil Driscoll and Kenneth Copeland.
The universal credit will replace jobseeker's allowance, tax credits, income support, employment and support allowance - formerly known as incapacity benefit - and housing benefits with a single payment.
The government plans to cut housing benefit by 10% to people on Jobseekers' Allowance for more than a year.
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