On Page 37, you will find "Exclusion of housing allowances for ministers" scored at 0.8 billion. I get that they round it up to the nearest billion. I mean what is $200 million between friends ...

On November 22, 2013, Judge Barbara Crabb ruled that Internal Code Section 107(2) which exempts from income tax amounts, designated as housing allowances, paid to "ministers of the gospel" is ...

Clergy housing allowance is constitutional, appeals court rules. Leaders of the Freedom From Religion Foundation argue that the allowance discriminates in favor of ministers. ... failed to file Form ...

Unless the minister has filed a timely form to be exempt from self-employment tax under code section 1402(e) or a valid vow of poverty was done, the housing allowance is subject to self-employment tax ...

Ministers living in parsonages provided by the church may have part of their compensation designated as a tax-free parsonage or housing allowance to cover the cost of furniture purchase and repair ...

The allowance now is limited to either the fair market rental value of the house or the money actually spent on housing. Clergy can claim the tax break for only one house. Gaylor, and her husband ...

Chicago clergy are fighting a federal judge’s recent ruling that tax-free housing allowances for clergy violate the separation of church and state. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ...

In 2002, the Clergy Housing Allowance Clarification Act further revised the statute to specify that the exclusion could not exceed the fair rental value of the minister’s home.

A federal appeals court on Thursday dismissed a challenge to the law that gives clergy tax-free housing allowances, saying the leaders of an anti-religion group in Wisconsin didn't have the ...

(RNS) — A federal appeals court has ruled that the clergy housing allowance authorized by the Internal Revenue Service is constitutional. The Freedom From Religion Foundation argued successfully ...