U.S. Donors Gave Settlements More Than $220 Million in Tax-exempt Funds Over Five Years - Polidicks

[quote]Private U.S. donors are massively funding Israeli settlements, using a network of tax-exempt non-profits that funnelled more than $220 million to Jewish communities in the West Bank in 2009-2013 alone, a Haaretz investigation has found. The funding is being used for anything from buying air conditioners to supporting the families of convicted Jewish terrorists[/quote] [quote]Thanks to their status as non-profit charities, these organizations are not taxed on their income, and donations made to them are tax-deductible, meaning the U.S. government is incentivizing and indirectly supporting the Israeli settlement movement, which has been consistently opposed by every U.S. administration for the past 48 years.[/quote] [url]http://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/haaretz-investigation-us-donors-gave-settlements-more-220-million-tax-exempt-funds-over[/url]

Yup. Welcome to the lovely exemptions you get for certain religious "freedoms". Seriously, if I can bugger off from my taxes by claiming religious exemption, I'm opening a trading guild under the basis of some pagan god and using it as a method to house people while claiming a ground of not needing to pay taxes as the basis of business being an aspect of worship.

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;49266794]Yup. Welcome to the lovely exemptions you get for certain religious "freedoms". Seriously, if I can bugger off from my taxes by claiming religious exemption, I'm opening a trading guild under the basis of some pagan god and using it as a method to house people while claiming a ground of not needing to pay taxes as the basis of business being an aspect of worship.[/QUOTE] Why are you saying this is from religion exemptions? It only says "non-profit."

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;49266794]Yup. Welcome to the lovely exemptions you get for certain religious "freedoms". Seriously, if I can bugger off from my taxes by claiming religious exemption, I'm opening a trading guild under the basis of some pagan god and using it as a method to house people while claiming a ground of not needing to pay taxes as the basis of business being an aspect of worship.[/QUOTE] Look up "Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption"

[QUOTE=sgman91;49266800]Why are you saying this is from religion exemptions? It only says "non-profit."[/QUOTE] Even non-profit has to file for some taxes. If this is all going there tax-free, something really needs to be looked into. Be it settlers using religious buildings as methods to launder tax free money[not uncommon], or some act of sheer what the fuck in regards to loopholes.

[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;49266794]Yup. Welcome to the lovely exemptions you get for certain religious "freedoms". Seriously, if I can bugger off from my taxes by claiming religious exemption, I'm opening a trading guild under the basis of some pagan god and using it as a method to house people while claiming a ground of not needing to pay taxes as the basis of business being an aspect of worship.[/QUOTE] This is about donations to non-profit charities, not religious institutions.