God and the IRS

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-107-17630-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 549 g

Seventy-five percent of Americans claim religious affiliation, which can impact their taxpaying responsibilities. In this illuminating book, Samuel D. Brunson describes the many problems and breakdowns that can occur when tax meets religion in the United States, and shows how the US government has too often responded to these issues in an unprincipled, ad hoc manner. God and the IRS offers a better framework to understand tax and religion. It should be read by scholars of religion and the law, policymakers, and individuals interested in understanding the implications of taxation on their religious practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brunson, Samuel D.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft, Besteuerung
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Brunson, Samuel D.
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.