A professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School, Lloyd Hitoshi Mayer, is advocating that Congress narrow the definition of church associations, a status that allows a nonprofit to avoid filing an informational Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Over the last decade, an increasing number of Christian nonprofit organizations have applied for and been granted the association of church status by the IRS.
They include some of the nation’s largest Christian ministries, such as Focus on the Family, the Family Research Council, Cru, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and Compassion International. The IRS does not publish a full list of entities that have qualified as associations of churches.
Kim Roberts | “Law Professor Advocates Changing IRS Definition of Church & Association of Churches” | October 14, 2024
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We attended a church that had a business style government, the pastor was the CEO and the elders were paid good salaries. The pastor had the right to fire the elders. My husband started evaluating the finances and saw things that he questioned and we were disciplined even though there was no membership. This hurt our family tremendously as my children lost all their friends during their teenage years.