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The church tax is only paid by members of the respective church, although the concept of "membership" is far from clear, and it may be asked what right the secular state has to tell the faithful what contribution they should make to their own denomination. People who are not members of a church tax-collecting denomination do not have to pay it.
Lerdo de Tejada was the Minister of Finance and required that the Church sell much of its urban and rural land at reduced prices. If the Church did not comply, the government would hold public auctions. The Law also stated that the Church could not gain possession of properties in the future. However, the Lerdo Law did not apply only to the Church.
The Lerdo Law (Spanish: Ley Lerdo) was the common name for the Confiscation of Law and Urban Ruins of the Civil and Religious Corporations of Mexico, part of La Reforma. It targeted not only property owned by the Catholic Church, but also properties held in common by indigenous communities and transferred them to private hands.
The government confiscated and nationalized all Catholic Church assets in 1859 and, prior to the 1992 legislation of an amendment to the 1917 Constitution of Mexico, religious institutions were not permitted to own property in Mexico; [4]: 439 [2] [11]: 429–431 "the Catholic Church was prevented from conducting any legal transactions in Mexico."
York explained that tariffs apply only to imports — a much smaller tax base than taxable income — and therefore couldn’t generate the same level of revenue as income taxes.
An Atlanta church recently found out it’s set to be auctioned off by creditors thanks to unpaid property taxes — which the administrators were never aware they had to pay.
CEBs were initially encouraged by the Catholic Church in Mexico, due to reasons such as the deficiency of priests and nuns in Mexico particularly in the rural areas. As well as the church was worried about the growing number of protestants. [165] CEBs provided an opportunity for aid for many of the Mexican communities.
The UMC General Council on Finance and Administration has managed denomination finances and statistics during upheaval in the denomination due to a splintering that has caused 7,500-plus churches ...