Note to Pastors: “Love Offerings” are considered income for tax purposes

Ministers in North Carolina were indicted recently on tax charges for failing to report "love offerings" they received for speaking at various churches. They failed to report over 1.8 million dollars in speaking fees over a five year period.

And of course, their parishoners thought they were innocent:

The jury reached its verdict in just over four hours of deliberations Monday night. Its decision was met by anguished cries from Jinwright's supporters in the federal courtroom.

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(Via Jack Bog's Blog)

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[C]hurch finance expert Dan Busby, who heads the national Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, reviewed the trial and called it “one of the most egregious cases” of pastoral misconduct that he’s seen. Jinwright led Greater Salem City of God, a church in west Charlotte, since 1981. A jury convicted him and wife Harriet, after hearing the following: They took the church credit card to Vegas, had the congregation pay for their luxury cars [a Bentley, a BMW 530i, a Maybach 57, and five Lexus's] and their daughter’s college tuition, demanded his $50,000 raise be taken out of money the church had borrowed, and failed to report more than $2.3 million in taxable income to the IRS.

Sickening! I hope they get locked up for the maximum.

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Note to Pastors: “Love Offerings” are considered income for tax purposes

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