Please tell the IRS to retract COS tax exempt status for ALL religious organizations. Our nations founders intended the Separation of Church and State to be maintained.Tax income is lost each year due to this status (as much as $71 billion). Tax exempt status has given religious organizations too much political influence, something that was never intended and taxing all Americans to subsidize religious institutions that only some Americans utilize is unfair.
• States bypass an estimated $26.2 billion per year by not requiring religious institutions to pay property taxes.
• Capital gains tax exemptions for religious institutions may be as much as $41 million a year.
• U.S. clergy may claim as much as $1.2 billion in tax exemptions annually via the parsonage allowance



