[sithlord]

Unsure exactly what you mean, church costs - donations = taxable "profits"?

Not sure I really agree with taxing donations - I do think that it would cut down on how much churches bring in (as in people would be less likely to donate), and are able to distribute as a commenter above said.

Now, I do believe that all other related income should be taxed by churches, whereas I think only "unrelated" income is taxable now. So for example:

Church makes original christian music and makes income from spotify (or other sources)

Church records their services and puts them on youtube (and monitizes them)

Church rents out building for weddings or other events.

etc

(some of these may or may not be currently taxable, I am not an expert but my quick search seems to think they may not be)

[ben7799]

The churches can say they have no profits, but there's a lot of money getting spent on dubious things that a typical non-profit doesn't have.

So you can tax the golden altars they build, or the private jets the pastors fly around on, or the castles the leaders live in.

There's a huge sham in all this.

[CountDrewku]

Let's not pretend non-profits don't fall victim to the same bs. All you need to do is look at the Susan G. Komen foundation.

People willingly donate to these places so if they don't care about it why should we?