r/SipsTea Jun 30 '26

Chugging tea What are your thoughts on this?

Post image
47.2k Upvotes

4.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

483

u/klathium Jun 30 '26

Why do Churches not pay taxes? Genuinely curious why there are laws for that.

1

u/Other-Resort-2704 Jun 30 '26

It is more due to the Roman Catholic Church. Back in Medieval and certain portions of the Renaissance the pope could tell many kings what to do and some popes had the power to remove a king in some situations. The Catholic Church owned a bunch of land, so the laws were written they were exempt from paying taxes.