Something the article didn’t mention is that Pepperdine employees, coaches, math teachers, law school professors, etc., etc., can register as ministers and have all or part of their income declared income tax free housing.
That’s because of a special administrative deal that George Bush and Omar Burleson got out of the IRS that allows the IRS to recognize Pepperdine as an “integral agency of the church”.
The FFRF suit, paragraph #35, addresses that issue as being on of the administrative abuses of the ministerial housing allowance.
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Can you imagine a job that comes with a free ocean-view house? Or one where they provide you with free on-site child care, a gym and free gourmet pick-me-up snacks delivered to your desk every day at 3 p.m.?
While some 14 million unemployed Americans are busy simply imagining a job — any job — some positions boast benefits that are over-the-top. Some are carryovers from the good old pre-recessionary days; others are with companies that retain that quaint philosophy of treating employees as a commodity worth nurturing. And still others are just jobs that traditionally have always had certain perks attached. For example: Free housing for the clergy. Get a parish wholesale and outlet online get a roof over your head.
Entering the ministry, for the most part, guarantees housing, or at least a housing subsidy as part of the employment package. And while no one is suggesting that clergymen need to live in squalor, if it’s high-end ocean-view living you are seeking, the job you want is at St. Aidan’s Episcopal Church in Malibu, where the minister gets to live in an architectural home atop an ocean-view bluff.
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Not everyone is thrilled with the idea that clergymen get housing allowances that they don’t have to pay taxes on. The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Madison, Wis. group that has been trying since 1978 to keep church and state separate, last fall filed a lawsuit challenging what is commonly called “the parsonage exception” or “housing allowance.” The Foundation argued that this is a special benefit afforded only the clergy and it’s worth billions of dollars in uncollected taxes that every other taxpayer — atheists included — has to then carry. The suit is winding its way through the federal courts and is expected to end up on the desk of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
College professors don’t have it too bad in the roof-over-their-heads category either, although they are required to pay taxes on any subsidy they get. Pretty much every top university, and many that aren’t so near the top, offers some kind of subsidized housing. The argument is that housing help is necessary to attract the best and brightest faculty, especially to universities located in pricey locales where academics could never otherwise afford to live,Discount Christian Audigier Hoodies, like Columbia University in New York City, or Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif.. There are always waiting lists for this housing and never enough units to meet demand, university officials say.
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By way of reference, here’s a bit of historical trivia that reflects how it was that Bush/Burleson were able to put the squeeze on the IRS so that the coach at Pepperdine, et al, could claim the income tax free ministerial housing allowance:
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Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
October 1, 1969
The Honorable
Paul W. Eggers
General Counsel
Department of the Treasury
15th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20220
Dear Mr. Eggers:
(excerpts)
After GEORGE BUSH and I talked to you
on the telephone yesterday, the thought
occurs that I should submit salient points
in connection with certain ministers’ housing
allowance, provided in section 107 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
(I)t appears that such institutions as…College
…other…schools have not been recognized
as an “integral agency of a religious organization
under the authority of a church.”
As GEORGE BUSH mentioned to you on the
telephone…
If the matter could be resolved administratively,
however, the problem could be greatly simplified.
IN TRUTH AND IN FACT, …COLLEGE and the
few other…COLLEGES IN THE COUNTRY ARE
INTEGRAL AGENCIES OF A RELIGIOUS
ORGANIZATION.
Should you determine that we need to discuss
this matter personally, GEORGE has consented
to request a meeting with you at your
convenience.
With kindest regards, I remain
Sincerely yours.outlet online brand clothing,
(signed)
Omar Burleson
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It worked. The IRS caved in and the private school employees have been registering as ministers and claiming the benefits more and more for what is now 40 years.
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